Contrast-enhanced ultrasound sonography optimises the assessment of lymph nodes in oncology

Ultrasound sonography (US) plays an important role in the assessment of lymph nodes in oncology. However, ultrasound findings are often equivocal in not allowing the differentiation of reactive from metastatic lymph nodes. Here, we present the successful use of contrast-enhanced US in the assessment...

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Autores principales: Petralia, Giuseppe, Conte, Giorgio, Fiori, Elvio De, Alessi, Sarah, Bellomi, Massimo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cancer Intelligence 2013
Materias:
Image Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3694837/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23840283
http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2013.328
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Sumario:Ultrasound sonography (US) plays an important role in the assessment of lymph nodes in oncology. However, ultrasound findings are often equivocal in not allowing the differentiation of reactive from metastatic lymph nodes. Here, we present the successful use of contrast-enhanced US in the assessment of a metastatic lymph node, improving the performance of conventional US and optimising the US-guided percutaneous biopsy.

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