Computed tomography or contrast-enhanced ultrasonography for follow-up of liver metastases after Cyberknife therapy?: A prospective pilot study.
Maria MarsicoTommaso GabbaniSarah LunardiBarbara LeiMatteo LucariniBiagio CuffariAngela CuratoloMaria Rosa BiaginiVito AnnesePublished in: Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (2018)
This pilot study found excellent diagnostic correspondence between CEUS and CECT in the evaluation of local disease stability or progression after Cyberknife therapy in liver metastases. These findings suggest that CEUS could play an important role in the surveillance of these patients because of its high accuracy and reproducibility, thus reducing the need for CECT.
Keyphrases
- liver metastases
- contrast enhanced
- computed tomography
- magnetic resonance imaging
- diffusion weighted
- magnetic resonance
- end stage renal disease
- ejection fraction
- contrast enhanced ultrasound
- newly diagnosed
- diffusion weighted imaging
- positron emission tomography
- chronic kidney disease
- dual energy
- public health
- peritoneal dialysis
- prognostic factors
- cell therapy
- mesenchymal stem cells