Imaging features of helical computed tomography suggesting advanced urothelial carcinoma arising from the pelvocalyceal system

Acta Radiologica

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 121-126

  Kwak, Kyung Won ^a   Park, Byung Kwan ^a   Kim, Chan Kyo ^a   Lee, Hyun Moo ^a   Choi, Han Yong ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Nephroureterectomy; Urothelial carcinoma

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; ONCOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT;

NEPHROURETERECTOMY; UROTHELIAL CARCINOMA;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; IOPAMIDOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; KIDNEY CALYX; KIDNEY PELVIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; URINARY TRACT CANCER; UROTHELIUM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOPAMIDOL; KIDNEY CALICES; KIDNEY PELVIS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; UROLOGIC NEOPLASMS; UROTHELIUM;

EID: 38349088106     PISSN: 02841851     EISSN: 16000455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02841850701635200     Document Type: Article

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