Contrast-enhanced sonography of adrenal masses: Differentiation of adenomas and nonadenomatous lesions

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 191, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1852-1860

  Friedrich Rust, Mireen ^a   Schneider, Guenther ^b   Bohle, Rainer M ^b   Herrmann, Eva ^b   Sarrazin, Christoph ^a   Zeuzem, Stefan ^a   Bojunga, Joerg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adenoma; Adrenal gland; Contrast enhanced sonography; Incidentaloma; Nonadenomatous; Sonography

Indexed keywords

SONOVUE;

ADENOMA; ADRENAL TUMOR; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

ADENOMA; ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE;

EID: 57149096746     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.3565     Document Type: Article

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