Three-dimensional power Doppler angiography in endometrial cancer: Correlation with tumor characteristics

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 723-729

  Galvan R ^a   Merce L ^b   Jurado, M ^a   Minguez J A ^a   Lopez Garcia G ^a   Alcazar J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CLINIC OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL RUBER INTERNACIONAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Endometrial cancer; Histological characteristics; Power Doppler; Three dimensional ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PATHOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; UTERUS CANCER; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77953563703     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: 14690705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/uog.7633     Document Type: Article

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