Use of CEUS LI-RADS for the Accurate Diagnosis of Nodules in Patients at Risk for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Validation Study.
Alina MakoyevaTae Kyoung KimHyun-Jung JangAlejandra MedellinStephanie R WilsonPublished in: Radiology. Imaging cancer (2020)
This study showed excellent specificity for the CEUS LI-RADS LR-5 category, allowing for confident imaging diagnosis of HCC, without necessity for pathologic confirmation. In addition, there was accurate differentiation of HCC from non-HCC malignancies and benign nodules. Only a single cholangiocarcinoma was misdiagnosed as category LR-5, with the remainder of the cholangiocarcinomas in the sample appropriately characterized as category LR-M.Keywords: Abdomen/GI, Evidence Based Medicine, Liver, Neoplasms-Primary, Ultrasound-Contrast© RSNA, 2020.
Keyphrases
- contrast enhanced ultrasound
- high resolution
- end stage renal disease
- ejection fraction
- chronic kidney disease
- newly diagnosed
- magnetic resonance imaging
- magnetic resonance
- peritoneal dialysis
- prognostic factors
- neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- squamous cell carcinoma
- computed tomography
- radiation therapy
- lymph node
- rectal cancer
- ultrasound guided