Usefulness of real-time tissue elastography for detecting lymph-node metastases in squamous cell carcinoma

Clinical and Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Aoyagi, S ^a   Izumi, K ^a   Hata, H ^a   Kawasaki, H ^a   Shimizu, H ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BOWEN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCH BIOPSY; SKIN CARCINOMA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; BOWEN'S DISEASE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 72549106069     PISSN: 03076938     EISSN: 13652230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2230.2009.03468.x     Document Type: Article

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