Sonographic twinkling artifact for renal calculus detection: Correlation with CT

Radiology

Volumn 259, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 911-916

  Dillman, Jonathan R ^a   Kappil, Mariam ^a   Weadock, William J ^a   Rubin, Jonathan M ^a   Platt, Joel F ^a   DiPietro, Michael A ^a   Bude, Ronald O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTIFACTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY CALCULI; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 79956309588     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.11102128     Document Type: Article

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