Real-Time Elastography in Differentiating Metastatic From Nonmetastatic Liver Nodules

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 207-213

  Kapoor, Atul ^a   Kapoor, Aprajita ^a   Mahajan, Goldaa ^a   Sidhu, Bholla Singh ^a   Lakhanpal, V P ^a  

^a Advanced Diagnostics and Institute of Imaging   (India)

Author keywords

Elastography; Liver nodule; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

BENIGN LESION; COLOR MAP; CUT-OFF VALUE; ELASTOGRAPHY; FALSE POSITIVE; FINE-NEEDLE ASPIRATIONS; HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA; HEPTOCELLULAR CARCINOMA; LIVER NODULE; LIVER NODULES; REAL-TIME ELASTOGRAPHY; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE;

CYTOLOGY; STIFFNESS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

LIVER;

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELASTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER NODULE; LYMPHOMA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS;

EID: 78751640609     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2010.11.013     Document Type: Article

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