Contrast-enhanced ultrasonography guidance avoids US-CT/MR fusion error for percutaneous radiofrequency ablation of hepatocellular carcinoma
Yang-Bor Lu, Yung-Ning Huang, Yu-Chieh Weng, Tung-Ying Chiang, Ta-Kai Fang, Wei-Ting Chen, Jung-Chieh Lee · 2024
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Description
Contrast ultrasound guidance sidesteps a fusion error in liver tumor burning, Yang-Bor Lu and co-authors show in a 2024 study. Some liver cancers hide from plain ultrasound, so doctors fuse scans from other machines, yet breathing shifts that merge by a wide margin. Sixty-five patients with over one hundred tumors were treated.
Contrast ultrasound matched the fused scans on tumor traits and even showed larger sizes and more feeder vessels. Fusion error from breathing averaged about seventeen millimeters. Outcomes such as control and survival are compared between hidden and visible tumor groups. Steadier guidance means the burn lands where the cancer truly sits.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yang-Bor Lu, Yung-Ning Huang, Yu-Chieh Weng, Tung-Ying Chiang, Ta-Kai Fang, Wei-Ting Chen, Jung-Chieh Lee |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 54 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |