Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) liver imaging reporting and data system (LI-RADS) 2017 – a review of important differences compared to the CT/MRI system

Clinical and Molecular Hepatology

Christoph F. Dietrich¹  Tae Kyoung Kim²  Hyun-Jung Jang²  Yuko Kono³  Seung Yeon Noh⁴  Juergen K. Willmann⁵  Andrej Lyshchik⁶  Claude B Sirlin⁷  Alexander Vezeridis⁷  Stephanie R Wilson⁸  Fabio Piscaglia⁹ 

[1] Department of Internal Medicine 2, Caritas-Krankenhaus Bad Mergentheim, Germany;Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada;Department of Medicine and Radiology, University of California, San Diego, USA;Department of Radiology and Research Institute of Radiology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea;Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, USA;Department of Radiology, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, USA;Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego, USA;Diagnostic Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada;Unit of Internal Medicine, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy;

关键词: Carcinoma, Hepatocellular;    Liver;    Ultrasonography;    Contrast Media;    Diagnosis, Ultrasonic;   

DOI  :  10.3350/cmh.2017.0037

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Medical imaging plays an important role in the diagnosis and management of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System (LI-RADS) was initially created to standardize the reporting and data collection of CT and MR imaging for patients at risk for HCC. As contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) has been widely used in clinical practice, it has recently been added to the LI-RADS. While CEUS LI-RADS shares fundamental concepts with CT/MRI LI-RADS, there are key differences between the modalities reflecting dissimilarities in the underlying methods of image acquisition and types of contrast material. This review introduces a recent update of CEUS LI-RADS and explains the key differences from CT/MRI LI-RADS.

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