{"title":"Evaluation of the correlation of wall elasticity between different sections of radial artery by velocity vector imaging.","authors":"Ge Tong, Yihua Gao, Dandan Yuan","doi":"10.11152/mu-4380","DOIUrl":"10.11152/mu-4380","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aim: </strong>This study aimed to evaluate the correlation between the elasticity of the anterior and posterior walls of the radial artery in different sections using velocity vector imaging.</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>In this retrospective analysis, 30 healthy people who underwent physical examination in our hospital from January 2022 to January 2023 were analyzed offline by velocity vector imaging technology. The following parameters were assessed: peak systolic strain (Ss; %), peak diastolic strain (Sd; %), peak systolic strain rate (SRs; 1/s), and peak diastolic strain rate (SRd; 1/s). Elastic function was evaluated by analyzing the systolic and diastolic motion of the arterial walls.</p><p><strong>Result: </strong>In the long-axis sections, there was a significant positive correlation between Ss, SRs, and SRd of both the anterior and posterior walls (r=0.531, r=0.803, and r=0.898, all p<0.01). Additionally, Sd showed a positive correlation (r=0.402, p<0.05). In the short-axis sections, there was a significant and positive correlation between SRs and SRd of both walls (r=0.762, r=0.667, both p<0.01). Furthermore, a positive correlation was found between SRd in the long-axis and short-axis sections of the anterior wall (r=0.382, p<0.05).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Velocity vector imaging is a valuable tool for assessing the elasticity of the radial artery in different sections, and the longitudinal SRd in the long-axis section may serve as a highly sensitive and accurate parameter for assessing changes in wall elastic function during the occurrence of radial artery lesions.</p>","PeriodicalId":94138,"journal":{"name":"Medical ultrasonography","volume":" ","pages":"264-269"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141163195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ultrasound findings of non-Hodgkin's mantle cell lymphoma in the right inguinal region.","authors":"Haotian Zhao, Xiaona Wang, Yaru Yan, Li Li","doi":"10.11152/mu-4427","DOIUrl":"10.11152/mu-4427","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>.</p>","PeriodicalId":94138,"journal":{"name":"Medical ultrasonography","volume":"26 3","pages":"324-325"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142305038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kathleen Möller, Thomas Friedrich, Ehsan Safai Zadeh, Christian Görg, Christian Jenssen, Michael Hocke, Chiara De Molo, Carla Serra, Yi Dong, Xin Wu Cui, Adrian Lim, Klaus Dirks, David Srivastava, Christoph F Dietrich
{"title":"Comments and illustrations of the WFUMB CEUS liver guidelines: Cystic fibrosis associated liver disease.","authors":"Kathleen Möller, Thomas Friedrich, Ehsan Safai Zadeh, Christian Görg, Christian Jenssen, Michael Hocke, Chiara De Molo, Carla Serra, Yi Dong, Xin Wu Cui, Adrian Lim, Klaus Dirks, David Srivastava, Christoph F Dietrich","doi":"10.11152/mu-4297","DOIUrl":"10.11152/mu-4297","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this series of articles with comments and illustrations on the World Federation for Medicine and Biology (WFUMB) guidelines on contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) the topics of very rare focal liver lesions (FLL) are discussed. Improving the detection and characterization of the most common FLL are the main topics of these guidelines. The focus of this review is on the many manifestations of cystic fibrosis-related liver disease (CFLD). These include focal biliary fibrosis, liver cirrhosis, vascular manifestations with nodular regenerative hyperplasia and portal hypertension with or without cirrhosis. This article describes the diverse changes of liver involvement in cystic fibrosis and their appearance on ultrasound, duplex sonography, and contrast enhanced ultrasonography. This knowledge and the imaging should help to recognize liver manifestations in time and enable a correct interpretation of ultrasound images in CF in the corresponding clinical situation.</p>","PeriodicalId":94138,"journal":{"name":"Medical ultrasonography","volume":" ","pages":"277-283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71490645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lidan Yang, Ting Zhang, Lei Wang, Juan Du, Hao Zhang, Wenquan Yi
{"title":"Contrast-enhanced ultrasound versus conventional ultrasound in guided liver puncture biopsy: a systematic review and meta-analysis.","authors":"Lidan Yang, Ting Zhang, Lei Wang, Juan Du, Hao Zhang, Wenquan Yi","doi":"10.11152/mu-4374","DOIUrl":"10.11152/mu-4374","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aim: </strong>To evaluate the contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) versus conventional ultrasound (US) in guided liver puncture biopsy through a systematic review and meta-analysis.</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>Comparative studies on CEUS and US in liver puncture biopsy were systematically searched from PubMed, Embase, Cochrane library, Chinese Biomedical Literature Database. Two researchers independently screened and extracted data, and RevMan 5.3 software was used for data analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The area under the curve (AUC) for CEUS and US in diagnosing liver biopsy was 0.98 (95%CI 0.99-0.97) and 0.95 (95%CI 0.97-0.93), respectively. CEUS demonstrated significantly higher single puncture success rate (38.0% vs 36.4%) [OR=2.67; 95% CI 1.38-5 .17; p=0 .003] and pathological diagnosis rate (95.6% vs 90.5%) [OR =4.35; 95%CI 2.25 -8.39; p<0 .001] compared to the US group. The diagnostic accuracy of the CEUS group was 95.6 % (1964/2054), while that of the US group was 90.5% (1729/1909). The combined analysis indicated significant advantages for CEUS over US [(OR = 2.36). 95 %CI 1.81-3.09, p<0.001].</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>CEUS is superior to US in the diagnostic performance, single puncture success rate, pathological diagnosis rate and diagnostic accuracy of liver biopsy in patients with liver lesions.</p>","PeriodicalId":94138,"journal":{"name":"Medical ultrasonography","volume":" ","pages":"301-309"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141163194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ehsan Safai Zadeh, Nicole Schreiber, Christian Görg, Katharina Paulina Huber, Kathleen Möller, Analisa Berzigotti, Thomas Thomsen, Christian Jenssen, Ernst-Michael Jung, Adrian Lim, Masayuki Kitano, Ryo Shimizu, Yi Dong, Xin Wu Cui, David Srivastava, Christoph F Dietrich
{"title":"Comments on and illustrations of the WFUMB CEUS liver guidelines: Rare malignant mesenchymal liver lesions.","authors":"Ehsan Safai Zadeh, Nicole Schreiber, Christian Görg, Katharina Paulina Huber, Kathleen Möller, Analisa Berzigotti, Thomas Thomsen, Christian Jenssen, Ernst-Michael Jung, Adrian Lim, Masayuki Kitano, Ryo Shimizu, Yi Dong, Xin Wu Cui, David Srivastava, Christoph F Dietrich","doi":"10.11152/mu-4302","DOIUrl":"10.11152/mu-4302","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The diagnosis or rare mesenchymal malignant lesions of the liver may be a challenge owing to the rarity of the disease and is usually made by histological confirmation. An ultrasound examination with, if required, color Doppler sonography and contrast-enhanced ultrasound, taking into account the clinical background of the patient, may help to focus the differential diagnosis. In this review, we describe the pathological and ultrasound features of several rare mesenchymal malignant liver lesions which include undifferentiated sarcoma of the liver, leiomyosarcoma, angiosarcoma, fibrosarcoma, liposarcoma, and epithelioid hemangioendothelioma.</p>","PeriodicalId":94138,"journal":{"name":"Medical ultrasonography","volume":" ","pages":"284-292"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139049941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Berkay Yalçınkaya, Ahmet Furkan Çolak, Ahmad Jasem Abdulsalam, Murat Kara
{"title":"The hidden menagerie of the posterolateral corner of the knee.","authors":"Berkay Yalçınkaya, Ahmet Furkan Çolak, Ahmad Jasem Abdulsalam, Murat Kara","doi":"10.11152/mu-4422","DOIUrl":"10.11152/mu-4422","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>.</p>","PeriodicalId":94138,"journal":{"name":"Medical ultrasonography","volume":"26 3","pages":"318-319"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142305036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniela Fodor, M. Pelea, M. Bădărînză, Carmen Georgiu, O. Șerban
{"title":"Knee tuberculosis in the context of MALT lymphoma: the diagnostic role of ultrasound and CEUS. A case report.","authors":"Daniela Fodor, M. Pelea, M. Bădărînză, Carmen Georgiu, O. Șerban","doi":"10.11152/mu-4410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11152/mu-4410","url":null,"abstract":"Tuberculosis (TB) arthritis remains a diagnostic challenge. In addition to clinical presentation, the use of imaging techniques and confirmation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis are essential. We present the case of a 69-year-old female in whom the diagnosis of knee TB arthritis was simultaneously established with the diagnosis of MALT lymphoma. This case report aims to highlight the role of multimodal ultrasound (US) in both diagnosis and its utility in interventional procedures, such as aspiration and synovial biopsy.","PeriodicalId":94138,"journal":{"name":"Medical ultrasonography","volume":" 30","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141670570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kathleen Moller, Oliver Hoffmann, Ehsan Safai Zadeh, Christian Gorg, Christian Jenssen, Michael Hocke, Chiara De Molo, Carla Serra, Yi Dong, Xin Wu Cui, Adrian Lim, Klaus Dirks, Siegbert Faiss, David Srivastava, Christoph F Dietrich
{"title":"Comments and illustrations of the WFUMB CEUS liver guidelines: Peliosis hepatis and porphyria.","authors":"Kathleen Moller, Oliver Hoffmann, Ehsan Safai Zadeh, Christian Gorg, Christian Jenssen, Michael Hocke, Chiara De Molo, Carla Serra, Yi Dong, Xin Wu Cui, Adrian Lim, Klaus Dirks, Siegbert Faiss, David Srivastava, Christoph F Dietrich","doi":"10.11152/mu-4287","DOIUrl":"10.11152/mu-4287","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this series of articles on comments and illustrations of the World Federation for Medicine and Biology (WFUMB) guidelines on contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS), the topics on very rare focal liver lesions (FLL) are discussed. This article describes the diverse changes of focal liver lesions in peliosis hepatis and the typical changes in porphyria. Although the focus is on the appearance on ultrasound and CEUS, the clinical context is always considered. While peliosis may be a surprising finding on puncture, lesions in porphyria cutanea tarda may be typical visual diagnoses that obviate the need for biopsy. If only you knew. This article aims to sharpen the clinician's eye. It provides knowledge of the clinical presentation and US and CEUS imaging of peliosis hepatis and porphyria.</p>","PeriodicalId":94138,"journal":{"name":"Medical ultrasonography","volume":" ","pages":"178-186"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71490646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unexpected finding: a patient with choledocholithiasis found mass at the lower end of common bile duct.","authors":"Wei Zhang, Sen-Lin Hou, Kun Lian, Jiao Tian, Yan-Kun Hou, Li-Chao Zhang","doi":"10.11152/mu-4404","DOIUrl":"10.11152/mu-4404","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>.</p>","PeriodicalId":94138,"journal":{"name":"Medical ultrasonography","volume":"26 2","pages":"220-221"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141444059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}