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20350680

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-3-30
pubmed:abstractText
The introduction of second generation microbubble ultrasound (US) contrast agents, such as SonoVue (Bracco, Milan, Italy), has considerably improved the diagnostic yield of US imaging for the evaluation of focal hepatic lesions in recent years because of its ability to very sensitively depict tumoral vascularity. In addition, contrast-enhanced US (CEUS) has the advantage of the absence of ionizing radiation, the widespread availability, even at the bedside, and the possibility to characterize a lesion as soon as detected on conventional B-mode US, commonly used as the first technique for exploration of the liver. The present review focuses on the basic principles of the technique and the various patterns of benign and malignant hepatic lesions at CEUS, contributing to their characterization. Understanding of these enhancement features at CEUS according to the type of tumors enables to make more accurate characterization of focal liver lesions as well as give better advice to oncologists, hepatologists or other clinicians in case of suspected liver tumors.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1879-291X
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2010 World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
36
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
531-50
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-12-7
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Characterization of focal liver lesions with contrast-enhanced ultrasound.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy. fabio.piscaglia@unibo.it
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review