Real-time contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging of infected focal liver lesions

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 657-666

  Liu, Guang Jian ^a   Lu, Ming De ^a   Xie, Xiao Yan ^a   Xu, Hui Xiong ^a   Xu, Zuo Feng ^a   Zheng, Yan Ling ^a   Liang, Jin Yu ^a   Wang, Wei ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Contrast media; Inflammation; Liver; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIA; FLAMMABILITY; ULTRASONICS;

INFECTED GRANULOMAS; INFLAMMATION;

LIVER;

SONOVUE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER INJURY; LIVER PARENCHYMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLASMA CELL GRANULOMA; PYOGENIC LIVER ABSCESS; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY;

EID: 41749107960     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2008.27.4.657     Document Type: Article

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