Comments and illustrations of the WFUMB CEUS liver guidelines: Rare focal liver lesions – non-infectious, non-neoplastic

Kathleen Möller, Bahar Stock, André Ignee, Ehsan Safai Zadeh, Chiara De Molo, Carla Serra, Christian Jenssen, Adrian Lim, Christian Görg, Yi Dong, Christoph Klinger, Claudio Tana, Maria Franca Meloni, Zeno Sparchez, Giampiero Francica, Klaus Dirks, Alois Hollerweger, Horst Kinkel, Hans-Peter Weskott, Nathally Espinosa Montagut, David Srivastava, Christoph F. Dietrich

Abstract


In this series of papers on comments and illustrations of the World Federation for Medicine and Biology (WFUMB) guidelines on contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) the topics of non-infectious and non-neoplastic focal liver lesions (FLL) are discussed. Improved detection and characterization of common FLL are the main topics of these guidelines but detailed and illustrating information is missing. The focus in this paper is on non-infectious and non-neoplastic FLL and their appearance on B-mode, Doppler ultrasound and CEUS features. Knowledge of these data should help to raise awareness of these rarer findings, to think of these clinical pictures in the corresponding clinical situation, to interpret the ultrasound images correctly and thus to initiate the appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic steps in time.


Keywords


Inflammatory pseudotumor; solitary necrotic nodules; intrahepatic splenosis; intrahepatic endometriosis; CEUS

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11152/mu-4192

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