Sonography: An underutilized diagnostic tool in the assessment of metastatic groin nodes

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 212-217

  Krishna, Ravula Phani ^a   Sistla, Sarath Chandra ^a   Smile, Robinson ^a   Krishnan, R ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL INSTITUTE OF POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Benign reactive hyperplasia; Fine needle aspiration; Lymph node; Lymphadenitis; Metastasis; Penile carcinoma; Sonography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GRAY SCALE ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MELANOMA; PENIS CARCINOMA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GROIN; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; PENILE NEOPLASMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 42149193661     PISSN: 00912751     EISSN: 10970096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcu.20420     Document Type: Article

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