Contrast-enhanced ultrasound assessment of arterial vascularization of small nodules arising in the cirrhotic liver

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 206-215

  Pompili, M ^a   Riccardi, L ^a   Semeraro, S ^a   Orefice, R ^a   Elia, F ^a   Barbaro, B ^a   Covino, M ^a   Grieco, A ^a   Gasbarrini, G ^a   Rapaccini, G L ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arterial vascularization; Computed tomography; Contrast enhanced ultrasound; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Liver cirrhosis

Indexed keywords

SONOVUE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRUG ELIMINATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NODULE; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 38749137339     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2007.10.006     Document Type: Article

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