The Added Value of Real-time Harmonics Contrast-Enhanced Endoscopic Ultrasonography for the Characterisation of Pancreatic Diseases in Routine Practice

作者：Seicean Andrada^*; Badea Radu; Stan Iuga Roxana; Gulei Iulia; Pop Teodora; Pascu Oliviu

来源：Journal of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases, 2010, 19(1): 99-104.

• Endoscopic ultrasonography
• harmonics
• contrast
• enhanced
• pancreatic tumors
• chronic pancreatitis
• acute pancreatitis

Endoscopic ultrasonography is an imaging method used in the diagnosis of pancreatic diseases. The differentiation between inflammatory tumor-like masses and pancreatic adenocarcinoma still remains difficult. Contrast enhanced harmonic endoscopic ultrasonography (CEH-EUS) is a new technique, recently available in commercial use and less evaluated. It is used to characterize the microcirculation in pancreatic disorders - hypervascularized masses such as neuroendocrine tumors or hypovascularized masses such as adenocarcinomas - and to better visualize the necrotic areas in acute pancreatitis and the vascularisation of mural nodules and septa in pancreatic cystic lesions.

• 出版日期2010-3