Open AccessThe dynamic enhanced characterization with low mechanical index gray-scale harmonic imaging inflammatory pseudotumor of liver compared with hepatic VX2 tumor and normal liver
Author(s) -
Ying Shi,
Xinghua Wang,
Yingyan Qiao,
Xiaoyong Bai,
Qinxiu Wang,
Chenggong Lei
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
advances in clinical and experimental medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.486
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 2451-2680
pISSN - 1899-5276
DOI - 10.17219/acem/110315
Subject(s) - medicine , inflammatory pseudotumor , mechanical index , hepatocellular carcinoma , ultrasound , liver tumor , contrast enhanced ultrasound , malignancy , radiology , pathology , differential diagnosis , second harmonic imaging microscopy , microbubbles , lesion , laser , physics , optics , second harmonic generation
Inflammatory pseudotumor of the liver (IPTL) is misdiagnosed usually as a malignant tumor based on the imaging findings. Differential diagnosis should be established to avoid hepatic resection. At imaging, IPTL has been misdiagnosed usually as hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). It is usually found firstly using conventional ultrasonic examination, which cannot give a definitive diagnosis. Because of its atypical clinical presentation and radiological appearance, a presumptive diagnosis of malignancy is frequently made. With the development of ultrasound systems and ultrasound contrast agents (UCA), contrast-enhanced ultrasound is widely used in diagnosing focal lesions of the liver.