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Title Advances in diagnostic imaging : the value of contrast-enhanced ultrasound for liver / editor, Luigi Bolondi
Published Milan ; New York : Springer, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 62 pages) : illustrations
Contents Impact of European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (EFSUMB) Guidelines on the use of contrast agents in liver ultrasound / Riccardo Lencioni, Clotilde Della Pina, Laura Crocetti and Dania Cioni -- The role of contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) in identifying and characterizing focal liver lesions / Hans Peter Weskott -- Contrast-enhanced ultrasound in the management of cirrhotic patients: HCC diagnosis, staging and monitoring of percutaneous treatments / Jean-Michel Correas, Ahmed Khairoune, Anais Vallet-Pichard, Stanislas Pol and Olivier Hélénon
Summary "In recent years, the imaging-based diagnosis of mass liver lesions has become increasingly complex due to the number and morphological variability of lesions that modern imaging techniques are currently able to display. If the sensitivity in detection has greatly increased, characterisation has remained difficult and represents a critical challenge for the clinician." "The availability of blood-pool contrast agents for ultrasound (US), in particular second-generation US contrast agents based on perfluorocarbon- or sulfur-hexafluoride-filled microbubbles, and the development of contrast-specific software add technologies have opened up new perspectives both for the immediate characterisation of any mass lesion detected in the liver and for increasing the sensitivity of US in the detection of liver metastases." "Taking into account the great impact of this new technology on clinical practice, the European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (EFSUMB) organised, in January 2004, in Rotterdam, a consensus meeting of experts in order to develop guidelines for the use of US contrast agents in the diagnosis of liver diseases. These guidelines, as well as discussions of further advances in the clinical application of contrast-enhanced harmonic US are presented in this book by an internationally renowned group of experts. The book provides an important starting point for clinical implementation of this new diagnostic procedure."--Jacket
Analysis geneeskunde
medicine
volksgezondheid
public health
afbeelden
imagery
ultrageluid
ultrasound
diagnostiek
diagnostics
radiologie
radiology
Medicine (General)
Geneeskunde (algemeen)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
In Springer e-books
Subject Liver -- Imaging
Liver -- Diseases -- Imaging
Liver.
Liver Diseases -- diagnostic imaging
Liver
Contrast Media
Liver -- diagnostic imaging
MEDICAL -- Hepatology.
Liver -- Diseases -- Imaging.
Liver Diseases -- ultrasonography.
Contrast media.
Liver -- ultrasonography.
Liver -- Imaging.
Liver
Liver -- Imaging
Form Electronic book
Author Bolondi, L. (Luigi)
ISBN 9788847004580
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9788847004573
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9781280626135