Three-dimensional ultrasound in small parts: Is it just a nice picture?

Ultrasound Quarterly

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 119-125

  Fernandez, Leandro J ^a,c   Aguilar, Anabel ^b   Pardi, Sylvia ^b  

^a Instituto Medico La Floresta   (Venezuela)

^b Clinica Vista Alegre   (Venezuela)

^c La Floresta Medical Institute   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Small parts; Three dimensional ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; B SCAN; CHILD; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTINUING EDUCATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CYST; ENDOCRINE TUMOR; ENDOSCOPY; EPIDIDYMITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCELE; LIQUID; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); ORCHITIS; PARATHYROID ADENOMA; PARATHYROID TUMOR; PAROTID GLAND TUMOR; PLEOMORPHIC ADENOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCROTUM DISORDER; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND; THYROID CARCINOMA; ULTRASOUND; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARATHYROID DISEASES; PAROTID DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TESTICULAR DISEASES; THYROID DISEASES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; VENEZUELA;

EID: 4444285242     PISSN: 08948771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00013644-200409000-00006     Document Type: Review

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