Is ultrasound imaging inferior to computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging in evaluating renal mass size?

Urology

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 28-31

  Mucksavage, Phillip ^a   Ramchandani, Parvati ^b   Malkowicz, S Bruce ^b   Guzzo, Thomas J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IONIZING RADIATION; KIDNEY TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 84555195756     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2011.09.036     Document Type: Article

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