Does the echogenicity of focal liver lesions on baseline gray-scale ultrasound interfere with the diagnostic performance of contrast-enhanced ultrasound?

European Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1214-1222

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

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contrast agent; Echogenicity; Focal liver lesion; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

SONOVUE; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; CONTRAST ENHANCED ULTRASOUND; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; LEIOMYOMA; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER CANCER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FOCAL NODULAR HYPERPLASIA; LIVER INJURY; LIVER NECROSIS; LIVER NODULE; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOTUMOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 64249124847     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-008-1251-z     Document Type: Article

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