Liver metastases from rectal carcinoma: Disease progression during chemotherapy despite loss of arterial-phase hypervascularity on real-time contrast-enhanced harmonic sonography at low acoustic energy

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 387-391

  Piscaglia, Fabio ^a   Gaiani, Stefano ^a   Tamberi, Stefano ^b   Celli, Natascia ^a   Cecilioni, Laura ^a   Gramantieri, Laura ^a   Bolondi, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b OSPEDALE DEGLI INFERMI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Harmonic imaging; Microbubble contrast agents; Neoplasm metastasis; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; SONOVUE;

AGED; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERY PERFUSION; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; ENERGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER PERFUSION; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; RECTUM CARCINOMA; VASCULARIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; AGED; CARCINOMA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0041508461     PISSN: 00912751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcu.10183     Document Type: Article

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