Ultrasound-guided treatments under low acoustic power contrast harmonic imaging for hepatocellular carcinomas undetected by B-mode ultrasonography

Liver International

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 708-714

  Maruyama, Hitoshi ^a   Takahashi, Masanori ^a   Ishibashi, Hiroyuki ^a   Okugawa, Hidehiro ^a   Okabe, Shinichiro ^a   Yoshikawa, Masaharu ^a   Yokosuka, Osamu ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contrast agent; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Liver; Sonazoid ; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; PERFLUBUTANE;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER INJURY; MALE; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; CONTRAST MEDIA; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; HUMANS; IRON; LIVER NEOPLASMS; OXIDES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 64749090428     PISSN: 14783223     EISSN: 14783231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-3231.2008.01875.x     Document Type: Article

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