Focal liver lesions: Contrast-enhanced ultrasound

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 193-209

  Bartolotta, Tommaso Vincenzo ^a   Taibbi, Adele ^a   Midiri, Massimo ^a   Lagalla, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Contrast enhanced sonography; Liver; Liver disease; Liver neoplasms; Sonography; Ultrasound contrast media

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT ULTRASOUND; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVALUATION; FATTY LIVER; HEMANGIOMA; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER ADENOMA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CYST; LIVER HYDATID CYST; LIVER INJURY; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER PERFUSION; NODULAR HYPERPLASIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEATOSIS;

ADENOMA, LIVER CELL; CYSTS; ECHINOCOCCOSIS, HEPATIC; FATTY LIVER; FOCAL NODULAR HYPERPLASIA; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER NEOPLASMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED;

EID: 64749101907     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-008-9378-6     Document Type: Article

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