Color flow mapping: A non-invasive tool for characterizing and differentiating between uveal melanomas and choroidal metastases

Oncology Reports

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 91-96

  Neudorfer, Meira ^a   Waisbourd, Michael ^a   Anteby, Irene ^c   Liran, Alon ^a   Goldenberg, Dafna ^a   Barak, Adiel ^a   Kessler, Ada ^b  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Choroidal melanoma; Choroidal metastasis; Color flow mapping

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CHOROID MELANOMA; CHOROIDAL METASTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR FLOW MAPPING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ENUCLEATION; HUMAN; METASTASIS; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UVEA MELANOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; UVEAL NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650751676     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or-00001046     Document Type: Article

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