Intrathoracic tumors in contact with the chest wall - ultrasonographic and computed tomography comparative evaluation

Medical Ultrasonography

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 115-119

  Chira, Romeo Ioan ^a   Chira, Alexandra ^a   Mircea, Petru Adrian ^a  

^a IULIU HATIEGANU UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER INVASION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMATOTHORAX; HEMOPTYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPHADENOPATHY; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA MESOTHELIOMA; PNEUMOTHORAX; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX PAIN; THORAX TUMOR; THORAX WALL; THYMOMA; TRANSTHORACIC BIOPSY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOGRAPHY; TUMOR NECROSIS; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; THORACIC WALL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84867937074     PISSN: 18444172     EISSN: 20668643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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