Usefulness of contrast enhanced ultrasound guidance in percutaneous biopsies of liver tumors

Journal of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 191-196

  Sparchez, Zeno ^a   Radu, Pompilia ^a   Zaharia, Teodor ^a   Kacso, Gabriel ^a   Grigorescu, Ioana ^a   Botis, Gratian ^a   Badea, Radu ^a  

^a IULIU HATIEGANU UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Contrast enhanced ultrasound; Hepatic tumors; Percutaneous echoguided biopsy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCED ULTRASOUND; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER INJURY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS BIOPSY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; ULTRASOUND;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 79960084446     PISSN: 18418724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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