The value of contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) in the characterisation of patients with renal masses

Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 275-290

  Ignee, Andre ^a   Straub, Bernd ^a   Brix, David ^a   Schuessler, Gudrun ^a   Ott, Michaela ^a   Dietrich, Christoph F ^a  

^a CARITAS KRANKENHAUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

angiomyolipoma; biopsy; characterisation; Contrast enhanced ultrasound; metanephric adenoma; oncocytoma; renal cell carcinoma; renal masses; SonoVue

Indexed keywords

IOHEXOL; SONOVUE;

ADRENAL CORTEX CARCINOMA; ADRENAL METASTASIS; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOMYOLIPOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCED COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCED ULTRASOUND; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY CYST; KIDNEY TUMOR; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RENAL CELL ADENOMA; RETROPERITONEAL SARCOMA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; CONTRAST MEDIA; CYSTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 78650938244     PISSN: 13860291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/CH-2010-1352     Document Type: Article

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