Real-time sonoelastography for the evaluation of testicular lesions

Radiology

Volumn 263, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 584-589

  Aigner, Friedrich ^a   De Zordo, Tobias ^a   Pallwein Prettner, Leo ^a,c   Junker, Daniel ^a   Schäfer, Georg ^b   Pichler, Renate ^a   Leonhartsberger, Nicolai ^a   Pinggera, Germar ^a   Dogra, Vikram S ^d   Frauscher, Ferdinand ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c KEPLER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELASTOGRAPHY; EMBRYONAL CARCINOMA; EPIDERMOID CYST; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEYDIG CELL TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMINOMA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERTOLI CELL TUMOR; TESTIS TUMOR; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 84862490126     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.12111732     Document Type: Article

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