Real-time sonoelastography - A new application in the field of liver disease

Journal of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 469-474

  Gheorghe, Liana ^a   Iacob, Speranta ^a   Gheorghe, Cristian ^a  

^a CAROL DAVILA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Hepatitis; Liver tumors; Real time sonoelastography

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER TUMOR; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; REAL TIME SONOELASTOGRAPHY; THEORY;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HEPATITIS; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 67149120805     PISSN: 18418724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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