Evaluation of relative wash-in ratio of adrenal lesions at early biphasic CT

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 194, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1484-1491

  Foti, Giovanni ^a   Faccioli, Niccolò ^a   Manfredi, Riccardo ^a   Mantovani, William ^a   Mucelli, Roberto Pozzi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adrenal lesions; Attenuation value; CT; Wash in ratio

Indexed keywords

IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PERCUTANEOUS BIOPSY; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ADRENAL TUMOR; ALGORITHM; BIOPSY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENOCORTICAL ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; BIOPSY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77953248542     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.3636     Document Type: Article

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