Perfusion pattern of musculoskeletal masses using contrastenhanced ultrasound: A helpful tool for characterisation?

European Radiology

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1803-1811

  Loizides, Alexander ^a   Peer, Siegfried ^a   Plaikner, Michaela ^a   Djurdjevic, Tanja ^a   Gruber, Hannes ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Contrast enhanced ultrasound; Musculoskeletal tumors; Perfusion pattern; Tumor vascularization; Ultrasound guided biopsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE TUMOR; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE TUMOR; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; BIOPSY; CHILD; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE NEOPLASMS; MUSCLES; PERFUSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84864708454     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-012-2407-4     Document Type: Article

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