Diagnosis of renal angiomyolipoma with hounsfield unit thresholds: Effect of size of region of interest and nephrographic phase imaging

Radiology

Volumn 260, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 158-165

  Davenport, Matthew S ^a   Neville, Amy M ^a   Ellis, James H ^b   Cohan, Richard H ^b   Chaudhry, Humaira S ^a   Leder, Richard A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANGIOMYOLIPOMA; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HOUNSFIELD UNIT THRESHOLD; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY HEMANGIOMYOLIPOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ANGIOMYOLIPOMA; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79959537978     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.11102476     Document Type: Article

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