Characterization of small solid renal lesions: Can benign and malignant tumors be differentiated with CT?

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 197, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 887-896

  Millet, Ingrid ^a   Doyon, Fernanda Curros ^a   Hoa, Denis ^a   Thuret, Rodolphe ^a   Merigeaud, Samuel ^a   Serre, Isabelle ^a   Taourel, Patrice ^a  

^a LAPEYRONIE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Biopsy; CT; Kidney; Malignancy; Tumor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER MORPHOLOGY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HISTOGRAM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; KIDNEY ADENOMA; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY TUMOR; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ONCOCYTOMA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLID TUMOR; TUMOR ABLATION; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80053277266     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.10.6276     Document Type: Article

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