Characterization of atypical cystic renal masses with MDCT: Comparison of 5-mm axial images and thin multiplanar reconstructed images

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 195, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 693-700

  Bertolotto, Michele ^a   Zappetti, Roberta ^a   Cavallaro, Marco ^a   Perrone, Rosaria ^a   Perretti, Leonardo ^b   Cova, Maria Assunta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b Ospedale Civile Ferrari   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bosniak classification; Characterization; Cystic renal masses; MDCT; Renal cyst

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KAPPA STATISTICS; KIDNEY TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR VOLUME; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC USE; IMAGE QUALITY; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOPAMIDOL; KIDNEY DISEASES, CYSTIC; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ROC CURVE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IOMEPROL; IOPAMIDOL;

EID: 77956804966     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.3113     Document Type: Article

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