Early experience with contrast-enhanced ultrasound in the diagnosis of testicular masses: A feasibility study

Urology

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1049-1053

  Lock, Guntram ^a,b   Schmidt, Christa ^a,b   Helmich, Friederike ^a,b   Stolle, Evelyn ^a,b   Dieckmann, Klaus Peter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b ALBERTINEN KRANKENHAUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SONOVUE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EPIDERMOID CYST; GRAY SCALE ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; LEYDIG CELL TUMOR; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORCHITIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINOMA; TESTIS ATROPHY; TESTIS DISEASE; TESTIS HEMATOMA; TESTIS NECROSIS; TESTIS NONSEMINOMA CANCER; TESTIS TUMOR; TUBULAR ECTASIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBUBBLES; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TESTICULAR DISEASES; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955608013     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2010.12.035     Document Type: Article

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