An alternative second performance of contrast-enhanced ultrasound for large focal liver lesion is necessary for sufficient characterization

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Wang, Yang | Wu, Size^*;

Affiliations: Department of Ultrasound, The First Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical University, Haikou, China

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Size Wu, Department of Ultrasound, The First Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical University, No.31, Longhua Road, Haikou 570102, China. Tel.: +86 0898 66774347; E-mail: wsz074@aliyun.com..

Abstract: Focal liver lesions (FFLs) evaluated using contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) and contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CECT) may have the same or similar findings or substantial discrepant findings. Such phenomenon can be found in two performances of CEUS that the second performance of CEUS conducted shortly following the initial performance of CEUS. Discrepancy of two performances of CEUS for FFLs occurring in the same patient at a short internal has not been well addressed, which raises challenge for CEUS for the evaluation of FFLs. In this case study, such phenomenon is illustrated and implication is obtained.

Keywords: Keywords, Liver, focal liver lesion (FFL), contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS)

DOI: 10.3233/CH-231721

Journal: Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation, vol. 84, no. 2, pp. 177-184, 2023