Clinical application of body diffusion weighted MR imaging in the diagnosis and preoperative N staging of cervical cancer

Chinese Medical Sciences Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 133-137

  Xue, Hua Dan ^a   Li, Shuo ^a   Sun, Fei ^b   Sun, Hong Yi ^a   Jin, Zheng Yu ^a   Yang, Jia Xin ^a   Yu, Mei ^a  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (China)

^b General Electric Medical Solution   (China)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Diffusion weighted imaging; Magnetic resonance

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EPITHELIUM TUMOR; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; UTERINE CERVIX BIOPSY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 55049116731     PISSN: 10019294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1001-9294(09)60027-4     Document Type: Article

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