Medical Ultrasonography, April 2008

Volume 10, Number 1

Editorial

The Great Challenge (page. 5)

Ioan Sporea

The need for change (page. 6)

Petru Adrian Mircea

Original Papers

What to expect from FibroScan (transient elastography) for the evaluation of chronic hepatopathies? (page. 7-11)

Ioan Sporea, Roxana Sirli

Detection of steatosis in chronic hepatitis C, based on the evaluation of the attenuation coefficient computed on the ultrasound image (page. 13-20)

Monica Lupsor, Radu Badea, Cristian Vicas, Sergiu Nedevschi, Mircea Grigorescu, Horia Stefanescu, Zeno Sparchez, Corina Radu, Dana Crisan, Alexandru Serban

The performance of three-dimensional ultrasound reconstruction of the bile ducts in the diagnosis and assessment of extrahepatic cholestasis – a clinical trial on 48 patients (page. 21-28)

M Socaciu, Radu Badea, Marcel Tantau, C Iancu, Simona Tripon, C Caraiani

B-mode and color Doppler ultrasound features of salivary gland tumors (page. 31-37)

Dana Dumitriu, Radu Badea, Carolina Botar Jid, Grigore Baciut, Mihaela Baciut

Gastroesophageal reflux in infants with persistent/recurrent wheezing – an ultrasonographic study (page. 39-42)

Otilia Fufezan, Dorin Farcau, Carmen Asavoaie, Ioana Anca

Clinical Practice

Emergency evaluation of the renourinary tract by ultrasonography in pediatric population (page. 43-45)

Otilia Fufezan, Carmen Asavoaie, Ioana Anca, Cornel Valean

Case Reports

Spectrum of corpus callosum agenesis – two different clinical patterns (page. 47-54)

F Brezan, Ioana Alina Anca, Cornel Valean, Otilia Fufezan, Beata Acs, Alina Stanescu Popp, C Pascu

Sonography and Mammography of Primary Malignant Breast Melanoma (page. 55-58)

Elena Claudia Teodorescu

Editorial news

Clinical Ultrasound, 3rd volume (Tratat de ultrasonografie clinică, vol. 3) (page. 59)

Simona Valean