Value of abdominal ultrasound scan, CT and MRI for diagnosing inferior vena cava tumour thrombus in renal cell carcinoma

Chinese Medical Journal

Volumn 122, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 2299-2302

  Guo, Hong Feng ^a   Song, Yi ^a   Na, Yan Qun ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY FIRST HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Inferior vena cava; Magnetic resonance imaging; Renal cell carcinoma; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEPHRECTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THROMBECTOMY; TUMOR THROMBUS;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASTIC CELLS, CIRCULATING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 70350604348     PISSN: 03666999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0366-6999.2009.19.020     Document Type: Article

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