Contrast-enhanced ultrasonography represents a very good method in the assessment of liver masses

Medical Ultrasonography

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 93-94

  Badea, Radu ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST ENHANCED ECHOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER HEMANGIOMA; LIVER TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; RELIABILITY;

CONTRAST MEDIA; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PORTAL VEIN; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 80052708698     PISSN: 18444172     EISSN: 20668643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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