Aim: To investigate the diagnostic value of resistance index (RI) in differentiating focal liver lesions. Patients and methods: In this retrospective study, a total 576 patients with histologically confirmed lesions were included. Each patient underwent B-mode ultrasound examination color Doppler examination. The RI values different recorded compared. Results: mean benign was significantly lowe...

Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is a chronic inflammatory process occurring in the hepatocytes, predominantly affecting females. We report an unusual presentation of AIH 28-year-old woman who was admitted with upper abdominal pain, vomiting, and fever for two weeks duration. Her imaging studies revealed multiple lesions liver suggestive infarctions. Laboratory investigations anaemia, thrombocytopeni...

BACKGROUND Ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is a valuable techhique for diagnosing benign and malignant space occupying masses of liver. It is a cost effective and safe method that can differentiate benign and malignant lesions accurately. The objective of this study was to analyse cases of radiologically guided fine needle aspiration cytology of space occupying lesions ...

INTRODUCTION Real time-sonoelastography (RTE) is a new developed technique that reveals the physical properties of the tissue by characterizing the difference in hardness between diseased tissue and surrounding tissue. Elasticity measurements have been already reported to be useful for the diagnosis and differentiation of many tumors: breast lesions, prostate cancer, lymph nodes and pancreatic ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the optimal bolus injection rate of ultrasound (US) contrast agent in vascular imaging for focal liver lesions. METHODS Thirteen patients with 13 focal liver lesions (5 hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) with cirrhosis, 4 liver metastases, 2 hemangiomas, 1 intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, 1 focal nodular hyperplasia) received two bolus injections of Sonazoid (at 0.5 and 2...

[Original]Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary neoplasm of liver, which arises from parenchymal cells liver.1 Hepatocellular usually develops in setting chronic background liver disease, such as cirrhosis or hepatitis B C infection. The diagnosis HCC relies heavily on diagnostic imaging, and high sensitivity specificity Liver Imaging Reporting Data System (LI-RADS) classifi...

PURPOSE To determine the potential application of contrast-enhanced ultrasound in the characterisation of focal liver lesions encountered in radiological practice at a district general hospital. MATERIALS & METHODS Retrospective analysis of 68 sequential patients undergoing contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) of liver. All patients were referred for CEUS following identification of 1 or more ...

For patients with unresectable pancreatic cancer, current chemotherapies have negligible survival benefits. Thus, developing effective minimally invasive therapies is currently underway. This study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of transarterial chemoembolization plus radiofrequency ablation and/or 125I radioactive seed implantation on unresectable pancreatic cancer. We analyzed the out...

The present study aimed to assess gadoxetate disodium contrast-enhanced (CE) positron emission tomography (PET)/magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with 68Ga-DOTATOC and 11C-5-Hydroxy-tryptophan (11C-5-HTP) in comparison iodine CE 68Ga-DOTATOC-PET/computed (CT) for neuroendocrine tumour imaging. Detection rate reader's confidence were evaluated each separate image volume: CE-CT, CE-MRI including d...

Objective Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a rare life-threatening parasitic infection. Computed tomography perfusion (CTP) imaging has the potential to provide both quantitative and qualitative information about the tissue perfusion characteristics. The purpose of this study was the examination of the characteristic features and feasibility of CTP in AE liver lesions. Material and Methods CTP...