The Usefulness of Ultrasound Colour-Doppler Twinkling Artefact for Detecting Urolithiasis Compared with Low Dose Nonenhanced Computerized Tomography

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1180-1187

  Winkel, Rikke Rass ^a   Kalhauge, Anna ^a   Fredfeldt, Knud Erik ^a  

^a HILLERØD HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Colour Doppler; Low dose CT; Microlithiasis; Twinkling artefact; Ultrasound; Urinary tract stones

Indexed keywords

COLOUR-DOPPLER; LOW-DOSE CT; MICROLITHIASIS; TWINKLING ARTEFACT; URINARY TRACT;

COLOR; DIAGNOSIS; ULTRASONICS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; B SCAN; BODY MASS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROLITHIASIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TWINKLING ARTIFACT; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; UROLITHIASIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTIFACTS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; UROLITHIASIS;

EID: 84861851535     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2012.03.003     Document Type: Article

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