Techniques of image enhancement in EUS (with videos)

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 645-655

  Fusaroli, Pietro ^a   Saftoiu, Adrian ^b   Mancino, Maria Grazia ^a   Caletti, Giancarlo ^a   Eloubeidi, Mohamad A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY OF CRAIOVA   (Romania)

^c AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM; PERFLUBUTANE; SONOVUE;

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INFILTRATION; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELASTOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SCLEROTHERAPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; HISTOGRAM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM TUMOR; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; MEDLINE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANCREAS CYST; PANCREAS TUMOR; PORTAL VEIN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH VARICES; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 80052269032     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2011.03.1246     Document Type: Review

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