Quantitatively defining washout in hepatocellular carcinoma

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 84-89

  Liu, Yueyi I ^a   Shin, Lewis K ^a,b   Jeffrey, R Brooke ^a   Kamaya, Aya ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Delayed phase; Equilibrium phase; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Hypervascular liver lesion; Multiphase CT; Washout

Indexed keywords

IOHEXOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871864312     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.11.7171     Document Type: Article

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