Diagnostic performance of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging in esophageal cancer

European Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1461-1469

  Sakurada, Aine ^a   Takahara, Taro ^b   Kwee, Thomas C ^b   Yamashita, Tomohiro ^a   Nasu, Seiji ^a   Horie, Tomohiko ^a   Van Cauteren, Marc ^c   Imai, Yutaka ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging; Esophageal cancer; Staging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 67349245218     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-008-1291-4     Document Type: Article

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