International guidelines for contrast-enhanced ultrasonography: ultrasound imaging in the new millennium

TY - JOUR

T1 - International guidelines for contrast-enhanced ultrasonography

T2 - ultrasound imaging in the new millennium

AU - Nolsøe, Christian Pállson

AU - Lorentzen, Torben

PY - 2016/4

Y1 - 2016/4

N2 - The intent of this review is to discuss and comment on common clinical scenarios in which contrast-enhanced ultrasonography (CEUS) may play a decisive role and to illustrate important points with typical cases. With the advent of CEUS, the scope of indications for ultrasonography has been dramatically extended, and now includes functional imaging and tissue characterization, which in many cases enable tumor diagnosis without a biopsy. It is virtually impossible to imagine the practice of modern medicine as we know it in high-income countries without the use of imaging, and yet, an estimated two thirds of the global population may receive no such care. Ultrasound imaging with CEUS has the potential to correct this inequity.

AB - The intent of this review is to discuss and comment on common clinical scenarios in which contrast-enhanced ultrasonography (CEUS) may play a decisive role and to illustrate important points with typical cases. With the advent of CEUS, the scope of indications for ultrasonography has been dramatically extended, and now includes functional imaging and tissue characterization, which in many cases enable tumor diagnosis without a biopsy. It is virtually impossible to imagine the practice of modern medicine as we know it in high-income countries without the use of imaging, and yet, an estimated two thirds of the global population may receive no such care. Ultrasound imaging with CEUS has the potential to correct this inequity.

U2 - 10.14366/usg.15057

DO - 10.14366/usg.15057

M3 - Review

C2 - 26867761

SN - 2288-5919

VL - 35

SP - 89

EP - 103

JO - Ultrasonography

JF - Ultrasonography

IS - 2

ER -