Tumor vascularization in cervical cancer by 3-dimensional power Doppler angiography correlation with tumor characteristics

International Journal of Gynecological Cancer

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 393-397

  Alcázar, Juan Luis ^a   Jurado, Matías ^a   Lopez García, Guillermo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CLINIC OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

3 dimensional ultrasound; Cervical cancer; Power Doppler; Tumor vascularity

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PELVIS LYMPHADENECTOMY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICAL HYSTERECTOMY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR BLOOD FLOW; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77952220157     PISSN: 1048891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/IGC.0b013e3181d159f9     Document Type: Article

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