Patient variability in intraoperative ultrasonographic characteristics of colorectal liver metastases

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 29-34

  Choti, Michael A ^a,b   Kaloma, Fanta ^a   De Oliveira, Michelle L ^a   Nour, Samah ^a   Garrett Mayer, Elizabeth S ^a   Sheth, Sheila ^a   Pawlik, Timothy M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CANCER CENTER; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL LIVER METASTASIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGENICITY; HUMAN; HYPERECHOIC; HYPOECHOIC; IMAGE QUALITY; ISOECHOIC; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER RESECTION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGY; PEROPERATIVE ECHOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COHORT STUDIES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 38549122509     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2007.5     Document Type: Article

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