Upper urinary tract tumors: How does the contrast enhancement measured in a split-bolus CTU correlate to histological staging?

Acta Radiologica

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 761-768

  Gandrup, Karen L ^a,b   Nordling, Jørgen ^a,b   Balslev, Ingegerd ^a   Thomsen, Henrik S ^a,b  

^a GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Abdominal GI; Adults; CT; Neoplasms primary; Tissue characterization; Ureters

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIA; SURGERY;

ABDOMINAL/GI; ADULTS; NEOPLASMS - PRIMARY; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; URETERS;

TUMORS;

IOMEPROL; CONTRAST MEDIUM; IOPAMIDOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CARCINOMA IN SITU; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY UROGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY PELVIS TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEPHROURETERECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; SARCOMATOID CARCINOMA; SPLIT BOLUS METHOD; TUMOR INVASION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; URETER TUMOR; URINARY TRACT TUMOR; URINE CYTOLOGY; UROGRAPHY; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; CANCER GRADING; DIAGNOSTIC USE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; KIDNEY PELVIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; URETER; URETERAL NEOPLASMS; UROLOGIC NEOPLASMS; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IOPAMIDOL; KIDNEY PELVIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM GRADING; NEOPLASM STAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URETER; URETERAL NEOPLASMS; UROLOGIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84905990221     PISSN: 02841851     EISSN: 16000455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0284185113505278     Document Type: Article

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