Sequential changes in echogenicity and conspicuity of small hepatocellular carcinoma on gray scale sonography after transcatheter arterial chemoembolization

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1305-1312

  Lee, Min Woo ^a,c   Kim, Young Jun ^a   Park, Sang Woo ^a   Yu, Nam C ^b   Park, Hee Sun ^a   Jung, Sung Il ^a   Jeon, Hae Jeong ^a  

^a Konkuk University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Conspicuity; Echogenicity; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Sonography; Transcatheter arterial chemoembolization

Indexed keywords

TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

CHEMOEMBOLIZATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; CONSPICUITY; ECHOGENICITY; GRAY SCALE SONOGRAPHY; HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA; SEQUENTIAL CHANGES; SONOGRAPHIC EXAMINATIONS;

ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

GELATIN SPONGE; IODINATED POPPYSEED OIL;

ARTICLE; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GELATIN SPONGE, ABSORBABLE; HUMANS; IODIZED OIL; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 77956014744     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2010.29.9.1305     Document Type: Article

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