Role of high resolution ultrasound/endosonography and elastography in predicting lymph node malignancy

Endoscopic Ultrasound

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 58-62

  Okasha, Hussein Hassan ^a   Mansour, Mona ^a   Attia, Khaled Ahmed ^a   Khattab, Hany Mahmoud ^a   Sakr, Amr Yahia ^a   Naguib, Mohamed ^a   Aref, Wael ^a   Al Naggar, Ahmed Abdel Moaty ^a   Ezzat, Reem ^b  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b ASSIUT UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Elastography; Endoscopic ultrasound; Lymph node; Malignant; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC EQUIPMENT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECHOGENICITY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND GUIDED FINE NEEDLE BIOPSY; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERECHOIC; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT LYMPHADENOPATHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRU CUT BIOPSY;

EID: 84921997553     PISSN: 22267190     EISSN: 22267190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/2303-9027.121252     Document Type: Article

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