Doppler ultrasound and strain elastography in the assessment of cutaneous melanoma: Preliminary results

Medical Ultrasonography

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 509-514

  Jid, Carolina Botar ^a   Bolboacă, Sorana D ^a   Cosgarea, Rodica ^a   Şenilă, Simona ^a   Rogojan, Liliana ^b   Lenghel, Manuela ^a   Vasilescu, Dan ^a   Dudea, Sorin M ^a  

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

^b ER County Hospital of Cluj Napoca   (Romania)

Author keywords

Cutaneous melanoma; Doppler ultrasound; Real time elastography; Strain elastography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CUTANEOUS MELANOMA; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STRAIN ELASTOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCER; TUMOR VOLUME; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; VASCULAR PEDICLE; VASCULARIZATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN TUMOR; YOUNG MODULUS;

ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PILOT PROJECTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 84952655837     PISSN: 18444172     EISSN: 20668643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11152/mu.2013.2066.174.dus     Document Type: Article

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