Adnexal mass vascularity assessed by 3-dimensional power doppler: Does it add to the risk of malignancy index in prediction of ovarian malignancy? Four hundred-case study

International Journal of Gynecological Cancer

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 867-872

  Mansour, Ghada M ^a   El Lamie, Ismail K ^a   El Sayed, Helmy M ^a   Ibrahim, A M ^a   Laban, M ^a   Abou Louz, Sobhi K ^a   Abd Allah, M Y ^a   El Mahallawi, M N ^a   El Lamie, Khalil I ^a   Gad allah, Mohsen ^a  

^a AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

3 dimensional power doppler ultrasound; CA 125; Ovarian malignancy; Risk of malignancy index

Indexed keywords

CA 125 ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANDROBLASTOMA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANCER RISK; CHILD; CYSTADENOMA; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GRANULOSA CELL TUMOR; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVARY CANCER; OVARY CARCINOMA; OVARY TUMOR; PELVIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SCHOOL CHILD; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; ADENOCARCINOMA; BLOOD; COLLOID CARCINOMA; CYSTADENOCARCINOMA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA, CLEAR CELL; ADENOCARCINOMA, MUCINOUS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CA-125 ANTIGEN; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CHILD; CYSTADENOCARCINOMA, SEROUS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69449087664     PISSN: 1048891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/IGC.0b013e3181a8335e     Document Type: Article

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