Intraoperative high resolution linear contrast enhanced ultrasound (IOUS) for detection of microvascularization of malignant liver lesions before surgery or radiofrequeny ablation

Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation

Volumn 50, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 65-77

  Loss, Martin ^a   Schneider, Julia ^a   Uller, Wibke ^a   Wiggermann, P ^a   Scherer, Marcus N ^a   Jung, Wolfgang ^b   Schlitt, Hans J ^a   Stroszczynski, Christian ^a   Jung, Ernst M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS); intraoperative imaging; intraoperative ultrasound (IOUS); liver lesion

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; FERUCARBOTRAN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; SONOVUE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B SCAN; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ECHOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LIVER CANCER; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER SURGERY; LIVER TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROVASCULARIZATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PEROPERATIVE ECHOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIMARY TUMOR; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CATHETER ABLATION; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84858684479     PISSN: 13860291     EISSN: 18758622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/CH-2011-1444     Document Type: Article

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