EUS contrast agents: what is available, how do they work, and are they effective?

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 69, Issue 2 SUPPL., 2009, Pages

  Alvarez Sanchez, Maria Victoria ^a   Varadarajulu, Shyam ^a   Napoleon, Bertrand ^a  

^a Service of Digestive Disease   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUNEX; CONTRAST MEDIUM; ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM; ECHOVIST; INDOCYANINE GREEN; PERFLEXANE; PERFLUBUTANE; PERFLUOROPENTANE; PERFLUTREN; SHU 508; SONAVIST; SONOVUE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLERGIC REACTION; AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS; B SCAN; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BRADYCARDIA; CANCER INVASION; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DYSPNEA; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER TUMOR; MICROBUBBLE; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH CARCINOMA;

CONTRAST MEDIA; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MICROBUBBLES;

EID: 58849128773     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2008.12.004     Document Type: Review

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