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B-Flow contrast US with Levovist in hepatic tumors: preliminary results
Naofumi Ono1, Hiroyasu Ijuin, Hideya Suga
1Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume 830-0011, Japan.
The Kurume Medical Journal
|September 16, 2003
Abstract:
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. Staining 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.