Update on the use of contrast agents in ultrasonography: A review of the clinical guidelines of the European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (EFSUMB);Actualización del uso de contrastes en ecografía. Revisión de las guías clínicas de la Federación Europea de Ecografía (EFSUMB)

Radiologia

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 362-375

  Ripolles T ^a   Puig, J ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DR PESET   (Spain)

^b Servicio Radiodiagnóstico UDIAT   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ultrasonography contrast agents

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CONTRAST MEDIUM; PERFLUTREN; SHU 508; SONOVUE;

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ABSCESS; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; AORTA ANEURYSM; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BREAST CANCER; BREAST TUMOR; BURNING SENSATION; BURSITIS; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROHN DISEASE; CYSTOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG INDICATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENTERITIS; ERYTHEMA; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; HEART DISEASE; HEMANGIOMA; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTESTINAL FIBROSIS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY ARTERY STENOSIS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY VEIN THROMBOSIS; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER ADENOMA; LIVER BLOOD VESSEL; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER HEMANGIOMA; LIVER INJURY; LIVER METASTASIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOMA; MAMMOGRAPHY; METASTASIS; MICROBUBBLE; MIGRAINE; MYOMA; NAUSEA; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; NODULAR HYPERPLASIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVARY TUMOR; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS NECROSIS; PANCREATITIS; PANCREATOGRAPHY; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT MONITORING; PEDIATRICS; POLYPOSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROSTATE ADENOMA; PROSTATE CANCER; PSEUDOTUMOR; PYELONEPHRITIS; RADIOFREQUENCY; RECURRENT CANCER; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPLEEN ABSCESS; SPLEEN INFARCTION; SPLEEN INJURY; SWEAT GLAND DISEASE; TENOSYNOVITIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX; VOMITING;

EID: 68149100813     PISSN: 00338338     EISSN: 15781771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rx.2009.05.002     Document Type: Article

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