Real-time tissue elastography as promising diagnostic tool for diagnosis of lymph node metastases in patients with malignant melanoma: A prospective single-center experience

Dermatology

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 81-90

  Hinz, Torsten ^a   Hoeller, Tobias ^a   Wenzel, Joerg ^a   Bieber, Thomas ^a   Schmid Wendtner, Monika H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Interdisciplinary Oncology Center (IOZ)   (Germany)

Author keywords

High resolution ultrasound; Melanoma; Peripheral lymph node; Real time tissue elastography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CUTANEOUS MELANOMA; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA CELL; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME TISSUE ELASTOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

EID: 84878012787     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: 14219832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000346942     Document Type: Article

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