Significance of upper urinary tract urothelial thickening and filling defect seen on MDCT urography in patients with a history of urothelial neoplasms

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 195, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 959-965

  Xu, Alan D ^a,b   Ng, Chaan S ^a   Kamat, Ashish ^a   Grossman, H Barton ^a   Dinney, Colin ^a   Sandler, Carl M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CT urography; Upper tract; Urothelial tumors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER PATIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THICKNESS; URETEROSCOPY; UROGENITAL TRACT TUMOR; UROGRAPHY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; KIDNEY PELVIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URETERAL NEOPLASMS; UROGRAPHY; UROTHELIUM;

EID: 77958524808     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.4177     Document Type: Article

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