Liver vascular transit time analyzed with dynamic hepatic venography with bolus injections of an US contrast agent: early experience in seven patients with metastases.

Blomley, M J; Albrecht, T; Cosgrove, D O; Jayaram, V; Eckersley, R J; Patel, N; Taylor-Robinson, S; Bauer, A et al. · Radiology · 1998

case_control · Level III

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Abstract

Spectral Doppler intensitometry to study transit of a bolus of an ultrasonographic (US) contrast agent in the hepatic veins was performed in seven patients suspected of having liver metastases and seven control subjects. All control subjects had a late response (rise time, > 25 seconds; time to peak intensity, > 45 seconds), whereas six of seven patients had an early response (rise time, < 25 seconds; time to peak intensity, < 45 seconds) (P < .01).

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