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lifeskim:mentions | |
pubmed:issue |
6
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pubmed:dateCreated |
2007-11-20
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pubmed:abstractText |
The aim of the study was to investigate the diagnostic value of the colour Doppler twinkling artefact (TA) in renal stone disease. To enhance the evidence of TA, a preliminary in vitro study was performed to optimise the setting of colour Doppler sonography. In the in vitro study, an oxen kidney was examined using an high-frequency (12.5 MHz) linear array probe in a water bath before and after the inoculation of an aliquot of powder obtained by fragmentation of a calcium oxalate stone. In the clinical study, 67 patients with diagnosis of urinary stone based on B-mode sonography and 67 matched control subjects were examined with colour Doppler sonography using a low-frequency (2.5 MHz) curvilinear phased array probe. In vitro, the injection of calcium oxalate powder in a bovine kidney sample induced the appearance of spots without any back shadowing appearance on B mode but with a large number of TA on colour Doppler. In vivo, TA was much more frequent in patients with stone disease (95.5%) compared to controls (9.0%) (P < 0.001). TA was highly associated to renal stone disease and was also present in renal areas where a stone was undetected with B mode approach suggesting its diagnostic role although further studies are needed to confirm its accuracy. The type of instrumentation and its setting is crucial to obtain reproducible results.
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pubmed:language |
eng
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pubmed:journal | |
pubmed:citationSubset |
IM
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pubmed:status |
MEDLINE
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pubmed:month |
Dec
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pubmed:issn |
0300-5623
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pubmed:author | |
pubmed:issnType |
Print
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pubmed:volume |
35
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pubmed:owner |
NLM
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pubmed:authorsComplete |
Y
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pubmed:pagination |
313-7
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pubmed:meshHeading |
pubmed-meshheading:17874239-Animals,
pubmed-meshheading:17874239-Artifacts,
pubmed-meshheading:17874239-Case-Control Studies,
pubmed-meshheading:17874239-Cattle,
pubmed-meshheading:17874239-Female,
pubmed-meshheading:17874239-Humans,
pubmed-meshheading:17874239-Kidney Calculi,
pubmed-meshheading:17874239-Male,
pubmed-meshheading:17874239-Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color
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pubmed:year |
2007
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pubmed:articleTitle |
Diagnostic value of colour Doppler twinkling artefact in sites negative for stones on B mode renal sonography.
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pubmed:affiliation |
Department of Radiology, Lecco Hospital, Lecco, Italy. turrin.be@ospedale.lecco.it
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pubmed:publicationType |
Journal Article,
Clinical Trial
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