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1 All authors: Diagnosis Imaging Center, Hospital Clinic, Villarroel 170, Barcelona 08036, Spain.
OBJECTIVE. Our objective was to evaluate the accuracy of a blood-pool sonographic contrast agent in the late phase compared with the three vascular phases for differentiation between benign and malignant focal liver lesions.
SUBJECTS AND METHODS. In 152 patients (105 with chronic liver disease), 152 solid focal liver lesions characterized either by fine-needle biopsy or by dynamic CT or MRI were studied. The final diagnoses were metastasis for 24, hepatocellular carcinoma for 75, focal nodular hyperplasia for 13, regenerating or dysplastic nodule for 14, hemangioma for 22, cholangiocarcinoma for two, and another focal liver lesion for two. Real-time sonography was performed after a bolus injection of 2.4 mL of SonoVue, using a low mechanical index (< 0.2). All lesions were evaluated in the arterial, portal, and late phases; classified as benign or malignant; and correlated with final diagnoses.
RESULTS. For discrimination between malignant and benign focal liver lesions, evaluation of all vascular phases improved the sensitivity from 78.4% to 98% and the accuracy from 80.9% to 92.7%, compared with evaluation of the late phase alone. The increase in accuracy was higher in patients with chronic liver disease (16.3%) than in those without (2.1%).
CONCLUSION. Evaluation of SonoVue enhancement in all three vascular phases is superior to evaluation of SonoVue enhancement in the late phase alone, especially in patients with chronic liver disease.
Keywords: abdominal imaging • contrast media • dynamic sonography • liver disease • sonography
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