Differentiation between benign and malignant adrenal mass using contrast-enhanced ultrasound

Ultraschall in der Medizin

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 460-471

  Friedrich Rust, M ^a   Glasemann, T ^a   Polta, A ^a   Eichler, K ^a   Holzer, K ^a   Kriener, S ^a   Herrmann, E ^b   Nierhoff, J ^b   Bon, D ^b   Bechstein, W O ^a   Vogl, T ^a   Zeuzem, S ^a   Bojunga, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

abdomen; adrenal gland; ultrasound; ultrasound power Doppler

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST AGENT BR1; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; PHOSPHOLIPID; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE;

ADENOMA; ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADRENAL DISEASE; ADRENAL GLAND; ADRENAL TUMOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PILOT STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; VALIDATION STUDY; VIDEORECORDING;

ADENOMA; ADRENAL GLAND DISEASES; ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENOCORTICAL ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PILOT PROJECTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 80053965235     PISSN: 01724614     EISSN: 14388782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1273408     Document Type: Article

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