Some misconceptions and pitfalls in ultrasonography.

abstract：:This article reviews the ultrasound (US) scanner setting, the examination methodology, and the anatomy of the skin. Dermatologic US requires frequencies of 15 MHz or greater and appropriate probe handling. The use of color Doppler imaging is mandatory, proven that it is set to detect slow flows. Trapezoid field of vie...

journal_title：Ultrasound quarterly

authors： Catalano O,Wortsman X

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal transplantation is the best treatment option for chronic renal failure, with marked improvement in social activity, work, and family life. In addition to these obvious improvements, it is an extremely cost-effective procedure when successful. Ultrasonography plays a major role in the imaging of these patients, a...

journal_title：Ultrasound quarterly

authors： Baxter GM

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrasound has become a widely used diagnostic imaging modality in medicine because of its safety and portability. Because of rapid advances in technology, in recent years, sonographic imaging quality has significantly increased. Despite these advances, the potential to encounter artifacts while imaging remains.This a...

journal_title：Ultrasound quarterly

authors： Prabhu SJ,Kanal K,Bhargava P,Vaidya S,Dighe MK

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography is essential in the management of children with sickle cell anemia and is a valuable adjunct to the evaluation of a variety of intracranial pathologies in children and adults, including vasoconstriction caused by subarachnoid hemorrhage, demonstration of major intracranial vessel s...

journal_title：Ultrasound quarterly

authors： McCarville MB

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transabdominal bowel sonography is a fast, efficient, and cheap way of examining the intestines. It is also virtually hazard-free and well accepted by patients. During the last 20 years, it has been established as a procedure for detecting bowel disease early in the diagnostic workup. Although rather unspecific, the m...

journal_title：Ultrasound quarterly

authors： Nylund K,Hausken T,Gilja OH

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of the vascularization index (VI) obtained using superb microvascular imaging (SMI) technique in the diagnosis of Hashimoto thyroiditis (HT). The thyroid glands of 80 patients with HT and 107 healthy, asymptomatic participants were examined using SMI. The thyroid parenc...

journal_title：Ultrasound quarterly

authors： Durmaz MS,Akyürek N,Kara T,Ateş F,Özbakir B,Gökgöz Durmaz F,Soğukpinar Karaağaç S,Öztürk M

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was to evaluate the correlation between birth weight and the distance between distal rectal pouch and perineum (P-P distance) and to determine a cutoff value for P-P distance to diagnose low-type imperforate anus in neonates with low-birth weight (LBW).We included 15 neonates with LBW (mean weight, 2012 ± 4...

journal_title：Ultrasound quarterly

authors： Hosokawa T,Hosokawa M,Tanami Y,Takahashi H,Hattori S,Sato Y,Tanaka Y,Kawashima H,Oguma E,Yamada Y

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Endometrial polyps are localized overgrowth of glands, stroma, and blood vessels and reported in 13% to 50% of women with dysfunctional uterine bleeding. Transvaginal ultrasound (TVUS) is the initial noninvasive modality of choice for the evaluation of endometrial polyps. The addition of intrauterine contras...

journal_title：Ultrasound quarterly

authors： Fadl SA,Sabry AS,Hippe DS,Al-Obaidli A,Yousef RR,Dubinsky TJ

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The advent of antiangiogenic drugs in cancer therapy necessitates an imaging modality that can longitudinally assess posttreatment changes in tumor vasculature. In this regard, microbubble contrast-enhanced ultrasonography (CEUS) offers several advantages over conventional imaging modalities. The small size of microbu...

journal_title：Ultrasound quarterly

authors： Hwang M,Niermann KJ,Lyshchik A,Fleischer AC

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the relationship between breast ultrasound background echotexture (BET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) background parenchymal enhancement (BPE) and whether this relationship varied with hormonal status and amount of fibroglandular tissue (FGT) on MRI. Two hundred eighty-three Korean women (52.1 years;...

journal_title：Ultrasound quarterly

authors： Kim SJ,Jung HK,Han BK,Lee JH,Oh KS,Lee JS,Lee Y

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim was to determine the discrepancy rate between the preliminary interpretation by sonographers and the final radiology interpretation for biliary sonographic findings. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Institutional review board approval was obtained. Four hundred consecutive right upper quadrant sonographer perform...

journal_title：Ultrasound quarterly

authors： Dawkins A,George N,Ganesh H,Ayoob A,Lee J,Nair R,Kiper C,Duncan K,Stevens S

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraoperative ultrasonography can play a particularly useful role in facilitating surgery or guiding biopsies in the brain and spinal canal. Given the limited access that is frequently afforded to the operating surgeon, coupled with lesions that may be located in deep or seemingly inaccessible locations, sonography p...

journal_title：Ultrasound quarterly

authors： Kane RA,Kruskal JB

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary angiosarcoma of the breast is a rare entity. In this case report, we present a case of primary angiosarcoma of the breast in a young woman who presents with her entire right breast enlarged without skin coloration change or signs of mastitis. She recently stopped breastfeeding. This case report will review the...

journal_title：Ultrasound quarterly

authors： Tomich J,Grove Nigro K,Barr RG

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue elasticity is becoming a more commonly used parameter in evaluation of parenchyma in inflammatory diseases. Considering the changes in the thyroid and salivary glands with adolescence, determination of mean elasticity ranges with a function of age is necessary to apply ultrasound elastography more widely in the...

journal_title：Ultrasound quarterly

authors： Arioz Habibi H,Memis Durmaz ES,Qarayeva V,Kandemirli SG,Kalyoncu Ucar A,Aslan M,Apaydin G,Kurugoglu S,Adaletli I

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine pelvic ultrasound characteristics in women after radiofrequency endometrial ablation (EA) and evaluate the association of those characteristics with symptoms and the need for subsequent therapeutic intervention. METHODS:This retrospective cohort study evaluated patients who underwent transvagin...

journal_title：Ultrasound quarterly

authors： Alhilli MM,Wall DJ,Brown DL,Weaver AL,Hopkins MR,Famuyide AO

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Shear wave elastography (SWE) is an adjunct to grayscale ultrasound examinations for evaluating breast masses. This study aimed to determine the SWE features that correlated with prognostic parameters for breast cancer. METHODS:Between January 2018 and May 2018, 80 patients who were confirmed to have invasiv...

journal_title：Ultrasound quarterly

authors： Gemici AA,Ozal ST,Hocaoglu E,Inci E

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pneumonia is one of the most frequent widespread and severe infectious diseases in pediatric patients worldwide. Pneumonia is characterized by high incidence and possibility of complications in the course of the disease in pediatric patients. For this reason, there is a need to have a rapid and safe diagnost...

journal_title：Ultrasound quarterly

authors： Najgrodzka P,Buda N,Zamojska A,Marciniewicz E,Lewandowicz-Uszyńska A

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Commercial central line vascular access trainers are available but have significant limitations including cost, size, and limited durability when used for the complete procedure. A unique central venous access trainer was constructed using silicone loaf pan, ballistic gel, copper pipe and aluminum rods as vessels cond...

journal_title：Ultrasound quarterly

authors： Harrington D,Damon A,Clifton W,Simon L

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There have been very few small studies or case reports in the literature considering noninvasive postmortem imaging as supplement to autopsy, especially in fetuses with skeletal dysplasias. Apert syndrome accounts for 4.5% of all patients with craniosynostotic syndromes. It is classically characterized by th...

journal_title：Ultrasound quarterly

authors： Patel B,Suchet I

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome is a rare disorder characterized by aplasia or hypoplasia of the uterus and vagina due to arrest in the development of the müllerian ducts. Women with this syndrome have the normal 46 XX karyotype, normal female secondary sex characteristics, and primary amenorrhea. Only ...

journal_title：Ultrasound quarterly

authors： Amaratunga T,Kirkpatrick I,Yan Y,Karlicki F

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrasound is considered to be the initial imaging modality of choice for evaluation of bile ducts. In this article, sonographic anatomy of the bile ducts and ultrasound findings in congenital, inflammatory, neoplastic, and other abnormalities of bile ducts are described. Roles of color Doppler ultrasound and newer ap...

journal_title：Ultrasound quarterly

authors： Parulekar SG

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biliary cast syndrome (BCS) consists of mass-like hardened collections of inspissated bile and sloughed biliary mucosa filling the intrahepatic and/or extrahepatic bile ducts, which show an alternating pattern of dilatation and stricture. It is a rare but serious complication of liver transplantation frequently necess...

journal_title：Ultrasound quarterly

authors： Hu B,Horrow MM

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our purpose was to evaluate the clinical indications for carotid duplex ultrasonography and determine for each indication how often carotid artery disease was identified.We retrospectively reviewed the consecutive reports for 3191 carotid ultrasound examinations. We tracked 14 indications to determine how often examin...

journal_title：Ultrasound quarterly

authors： Naidich JB,Weiss A,Grimaldi GM,Kohn N,Naidich JJ,Pellerito JS

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraoperative ultrasound provides spatial resolution of the pancreas superior to computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and transabdominal sonography. This pictorial essay will review common benign and malignant pancreatic processes including the following: pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, pancreatitis, en...

journal_title：Ultrasound quarterly

authors： Shin LK,Brant-Zawadzki G,Kamaya A,Jeffrey RB

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrasound plays an important role in the diagnostic workup of scrotal diseases. It can differentiate a testicular mass from an extratesticular mass and determine whether the mass is cystic, solid, or complex. Using this information a likely diagnosis can be ascertained. In the acute scrotum, acute epididymitis/epidid...

journal_title：Ultrasound quarterly

authors： Akin EA,Khati NJ,Hill MC

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Portal venous system evaluation is required in many clinical circumstances, as substantial morbidity and mortality can be associated with a spectrum of portal vein abnormalities. Portal venous system pathologies can be congenital or acquired, and the knowledge of their imaging appearances will allow for a confident di...

journal_title：Ultrasound quarterly

authors： Kulkarni NM,Griffin MO Jr,OʼConnor SD,Sudakoff G

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ureteral colic is not generally included in the differential diagnoses of acute scrotal pain, although ureteral pathology is a recognized cause of pain referred to the scrotum. We report 3 patients presenting with acute scrotal pain who had normal scrotal color Doppler ultrasound scans; subsequent ultrasound of the ip...

journal_title：Ultrasound quarterly

authors： Wachsberg RH

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 38-week pregnant patient with history of cesarean delivery was admitted to the hospital for induction of labor after diagnosis of fetal demise. When the clinical picture became concerning for uterine scar dehiscence, an ultrasound was ordered. After targeted ultrasound of the lower uterine segment, the sonographer i...

journal_title：Ultrasound quarterly

authors： Spain JA,Shaikh S,Sandberg SA

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine if a significant contralateral stenosis affects interpretation tables of the ipsilateral internal carotid artery's degree of stenosis in duplex Doppler ultrasound, the records of 307 patients with carotid duplex ultrasound studies with an angiogram performed within 3 months without intervening interventio...

journal_title：Ultrasound quarterly

authors： Grajo JR,Barr RG

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal inflammatory pseudotumor (FIPT) of the liver is a rare disease that may be mistaken for a malignant tumor. It is difficult to diagnose because of its nonspecific clinical and imaging features. We report the case of a 46-year-old Asian man who presented with a mass in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen. The...

journal_title：Ultrasound quarterly

authors： Xian MF,Lan WT,Huang H,Zeng D,Xu ZF

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00