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Terapia ablativa percutanea delle neoplasie epatiche secondarie: alcolizzazione percutanea ecoguidata
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Terapia ablativa percutanea delle neoplasie epatiche secondarie: considerazioni conclusive
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Advances in the surgical treatment of colorectal cancer liver metastases through ultrasound
No full textSurgery remains the gold standard of treatment for colorectal cancer liver metastases (CLM). The only limitation of surgery for CLM is its technical feasibility, the key point being to leave enough remnant liver to ensure patient survival. This report describes a surgical procedure based extensively on ultrasound guidance, which allows for curative resection in one stage and also for multiple bilobar CLM. This strategy minimizes the need for two-stage hepatectomy and may thus overcome many of the limitations and consequences of a two-stage approach, such as the impossibility to complete the treatment approach in 20%-25% of patients and the amputation of major vascular structures, which can result in less technical solutions for CLM relapse
Adverse effects associated with SonoVue(registered trademark) use
No full textConventional ultrasonography (US) has limited accuracy in the detection and characterisation of solid focal liver lesions (FLL). Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) significantly improves the diagnostic performance of US in the assessment of FLL. Rare reports of serious adverse events have been reported with CEUS. The rates of adverse reactions reported from the use of ultrasound contrast agents seem comparable to, or lower than, those observed for other imaging modalities that use contrast agents such as computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. Improved diagnostic results and diagnostic confidence achieved in conventional CEUS studies of the liver and during the investigational use in the intraoperative CEUS exploration appear to justify the use of this promising modality. (copyright) 2005 Ashley Publications Ltd
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