Comparative Effectiveness of Imaging Modalities for the Diagnosis of Upper and Lower Urinary Tract Malignancy: A Critically Appraised Topic

Academic Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1134-1140

  Razavi, Seyed Amirhossein ^a   Sadigh, Gelareh ^a   Kelly, Aine M ^b   Cronin, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Bladder cancer; Cancer; Confidence interval; Diagnosis; Evidence based medicine; Likelihood ratio; Lower urinary tract; Negative predictive value; Positive predictive value; Sensitivity and specificity; Transitional cell carcinoma; Upper urinary tract

Indexed keywords

BLADDER CANCER; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEMATURIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAVENOUS UROGRAPHY; META ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROGRADE PYELOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; UPPER URINARY TRACT TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; URETEROSCOPY; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER; UROGRAPHY;

CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84864827393     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: 18784046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2012.05.004     Document Type: Review

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