Role of sonography for implantation and sequential evaluation of a VX2 rabbit liver tumor model

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 51-60

  Luo, Wen ^a   Zhou, Xiaodong ^a   Zheng, Xiaoying ^a   He, Guangbin ^a   Yu, Ming ^a   Li, Qiuyang ^a   Liu, Qing ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Animal; Liver; Sonography; VX2 carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; LIVER; PATHOLOGY; TUMORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

COLOR DOPPLER; CONTRAST-ENHANCED; IMPLANTATION PROCESS; LIVER TUMORS; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATES; PULSE INVERSION; TUMOR VOLUMES; VX2 CARCINOMA;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; LIVER TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; RABBIT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSPLANTATION; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; LIVER NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; RABBITS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 75149155290     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2010.29.1.51     Document Type: Article

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