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Common and uncommon features of focal splenic lesions on contrast-enhanced ultrasound: a pictorial review.
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- Differentiating malignant from benign splenic lesions: a meta-analysis and pictorial review of imaging features.Abdominal radiology (New York) · 2024Pooled it
- Role of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound in the Characterization of Focal Splenic Lesions: A Systematic Review.Cureus · 2026Review
- Expanding Role of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound and Elastography in the Evaluation of Abdominal Pathologies in Children.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Diagnostic insights into splenic pathologies: the role of multiparametric ultrasound.Abdominal radiology (New York) · 2025Review
- Multimodality Imaging Features of Various Splenic Lesions: Clinical and Histopathologic Correlation.Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology · 2024Review
- Identification of secondary splenic lymphoma with contrast-enhanced ultrasound in the pediatric population. A case report.Radiology case reports · 2022Article
- The Role of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound in Differentiating Splenic Tuberculosis From Splenic Lymphoma.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Article
- Contrast-enhanced ultrasound of the spleen, pancreas and gallbladder in children.Pediatric radiology · 2021Review
- Contrast-enhanced ultrasound of blunt abdominal trauma in children.Pediatric radiology · 2021Review
- Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Imaging Features of Focal Splenic Tuberculosis.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2021Article
- Use of contrast-enhanced ultrasound for assessment of nodular lymphoid hyperplasia (NLH) in canine spleen.BMC veterinary research · 2019Article
- Role of contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) in the diagnosis and management of traumatic splenic injuries.Journal of ultrasound · 2018Review
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Abstract
The characterization of focal splenic lesions by ultrasound can be quite challenging. The recent introduction of contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) has come to play a valuable role in the field of imaging splenic pathologies, offering the possibility of an ionizing radiation-free investigation. Because CEUS has been incorporated into everyday clinical practice, malignant diseases such as focal lymphomatous infiltration, metastatic deposits, benign cysts, traumatic fractures, and hemangiomas can now be accurately depicted and characterized without the need for further imaging. More specifically, splenic traumatic fractures do not require additional imaging by computed tomography (with ionizing radiation exposure) for follow-up, because splenic fractures and their complications are safely imaged with CEUS. In the new era of CEUS, more patients benefit from radiation-free investigation of splenic pathologies with high diagnostic accuracy.
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