Role of diffusion MRI and apparent diffusion coefficient measurement in the diagnosis, staging and pathological classification of bladder tumors

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 346-352

  Daǧgülli, Mansur ^a   Onur, Mehmet Ruhi ^a   Firdolaş, Fatih ^a   Onur, Rahmi ^a   Kocakoç, Ercan ^b   Orhan, Irfan ^a  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BEZMIALEM VAKIF UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Apparent diffusion coefficient value; Bladder cancer; Diffusion weighted MRI; Hematuria; MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BLADDER TUMOR; BLADDER WALL; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOSCOPY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HEMATURIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CYSTITIS; CYSTOSCOPY; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HEMATURIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 80055037565     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: 14230399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000330925     Document Type: Article

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