What Is a Liver Ultrasound? A liver ultrasound is a type of abdominal ultrasound, an imaging test that uses high-frequency sound waves to create pictures of the organs and structures in your abdomen, ...
As waistlines grow, more people’s weight is on the rise, and so is fatty liver disease. It’s a serious medical condition that increases the risk of liver cancer and cirrhosis, but now doctors can ...
The National Institute for Health and Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended FibroScan, a non-invasive hepatic ultrasound scan, as an option for assessing liver damage from fibrosis and ...
Seeing the words “fatty liver” on an ultrasound report can be unsettling. Fatty liver, called MASLD (Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease), means excess fat has built up in liver ...
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--New physician guidelines now recommend use of contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) to diagnose hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common primary liver cancer. CEUS is a ...
FibroScan is a diagnostic test that uses ultrasound to visualize the liver. Detecting cancer is not its main use. However, because the scan evaluates overall liver health, it may provide an indication ...
A phase I/II trial of gemcitabine and S-1 therapy in patients with resected pancreatic cancer: Japanese Study Group of Adjuvant Therapy for Pancreatic Cancer (JSAP-03). The impact of diabetes mellitus ...
Edited image from the publication: scan of the liver of an obese patient. The image quality of the standard ultrasound probe (left) is significantly poorer than that of the high-performance probes ...