B-Flow Contrast US with Levovist in Hepatic Tumors: Preliminary Results

B-Flow Contrast US with Levovist in Hepatic Tumors: Preliminary Results

Usefulness of Levovist contrast ultrasonography by the B-Flow method was evaluated in cases of hepatic tumor. Subjects included 14 patients with moderately differentiated hepatocellular carcinoma and 4 patients with hepatic hemangioma. Each patients had a single tumor mass. Images showed strong stai...

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Veröffentlicht in:Kurume medical journal 2003/06/13, Vol.50(1-2), pp.21-25
Hauptverfasser: ONO, NAOFUMI, IJUIN, HIROYASU, SUGA, HIDEYA, OKABE, YOSHINOBU, YAKUSHIJI, KAZUAKI, HASHIGUCHI, MICHITOSHI, KUROHIJI, TOSHIHIKO, KOGA, NOBUHIKO, KUMASHIRO, RYUKICHI, SATA, MICHIO
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Sprache:eng
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Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
B-Flow
contrast agents
Female
Hemangioma - diagnostic imaging
hemangioma of liver
hepatocellular carcinoma
Humans
Levovist
Liver Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging
Male
Middle Aged
Polysaccharides
Ultrasonography
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Zusammenfassung:Usefulness of Levovist contrast ultrasonography by the B-Flow method was evaluated in cases of hepatic tumor. Subjects included 14 patients with moderately differentiated hepatocellular carcinoma and 4 patients with hepatic hemangioma. Each patients had a single tumor mass. Images showed strong staining in 11 of the 14 nodes in the hepatocellular carcinomas and all 4 hemangiomas. Staing was seen only in lesions located within 4 cm of the probe. Thus B-Flow ultrasonography using Levovist was proved useful for evaluating vascularity of superficially located.
ISSN:0023-5679
1881-2090
DOI:10.2739/kurumemedj.50.21