Characterization of intra-abdominal lesions of undetermined origin by contrast-enhanced harmonic EUS (with videos)

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 637-642

  Xia, Yu ^b   Kitano, Masayuki ^a   Kudo, Masatoshi ^a   Imai, Hajime ^a   Kamata, Ken ^a   Sakamoto, Hiroki ^a   Komaki, Takamitsu ^a  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

PERFLUBUTANE;

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCED HARMONIC ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOSCOPE; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MICROVASCULATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIDEOENDOSCOPY;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IRON; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; OXIDES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 77956263604     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2010.04.013     Document Type: Article

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