Improved detection of hepatic metastases of adrenocortical cancer by contrast-enhanced ultrasound

Oncology Reports

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1135-1139

  Bauditz, Juergen ^a   Quinkler, Marcus ^a   Beyersdorff, Dirk ^a   Wermke, Wolfram ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adrenocortical cancer; Echoenhanced ultrasound; Hepatic metastases

Indexed keywords

SHU 508; SONOVUE; CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADRENAL CORTEX CARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; ADRENAL CORTEX TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; LIVER TUMOR; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADRENAL CORTEX NEOPLASMS; ADULT; AGED; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 47549111741     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.19.5.1135     Document Type: Article

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