Assessing myometrial infiltration by endometrial cancer: Uterine virtual navigation with three-dimensional US

Radiology

Volumn 250, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 776-783

  Alcázar, Juan Luis ^a   Galván, Rosendo ^a   Albela, Sonia ^b   Martinez, Sergio ^b   Pahisa, Jaume ^b   Jurado, Matfas ^a   López García, Guillermo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CLINIC OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYOMETRIUM; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROSA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND; UTERUS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; MYOMETRIUM; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 62649133401     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2503080877     Document Type: Article

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