ArticleOncology letters2020
Contrast-enhanced ultrasound for needle biopsy of thoracic lesions.
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- Revolution or routine? Comparing AI and traditional imaging in thoracic surgery outcomes: a systematic review.Journal of medicine and life · 2025Pooled it
- Efficacy of CEUS-guided biopsy for thoracic and pulmonary lesions: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC medical imaging · 2025Pooled it
- The Role of CEUS in the Diagnosis and Follow-Up of Pleuropulmonary Diseases and Interventional Procedures.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Application of contrast-enhanced ultrasound to improve the management of microwave thyroid nodule ablation.Ultrasound (Leeds, England) · 2026Review
- Clinical efficacy ofFrontiers in oncology · 2026Article
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- Discriminating Central Lung Cancer Tumors from Atelectasis using Radiomics Analysis on Contrast-free CTCurrent medical imaging · 2025Article
- Pathological subtypes and sampling strategies determine diagnostic sensitivity in cervical lymph node tuberculosis: a retrospective study.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2025Article
- Comments and Illustrations of the European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine (EFSUMB) Guidelines: Rare Malignant Pulmonal and Pleural Tumors: Primary Pulmonary Sarcoma and Mesothelioma, Imaging Features on Transthoracic Ultrasound.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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- Performance of Intraoperative Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound (Io-CEUS) in the Diagnosis of Primary Lung Cancer.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The Value of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) in the Evaluation of Central Lung Cancer with Obstructive Atelectasis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Imaging performance of thoracic SMARCA4-deficient undifferentiated tumor: a case report and literature review.Translational lung cancer research · 2024Article
- [Research progress on the identification of central lung cancer and atelectasis using multimodal imaging].Sheng wu yi xue gong cheng xue za zhi = Journal of biomedical engineering = Shengwu yixue gongchengxue zazhi · 2023Review
- Contrast enhancement for ultrasound-guided interventions: when to use it and what to expect?Ultrasonography (Seoul, Korea) · 2022Article
- A comparative study of ultrasound-guided puncture biopsy combined with histopathology and Xpert MTB/RIF in the diagnosis of lymph node tuberculosis.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Effectiveness and Safety of Transthoracic Ultrasound in Guiding Percutaneous Needle Biopsy in the Lung and Comparison vs. CT Scan in Assessing Morphology of Subpleural Consolidations.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Transthoracic Ultrasound in Infectious Organizing Pneumonia: A Useful Guide for Percutaneous Needle Biopsy.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Article
- Comparative study of core needle biopsy and fine needle aspiration in the treatment of metastatic lymph nodes guided by contrast-enhanced ultrasound.Pakistan journal of medical sciencesArticle
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Abstract
Two-dimensional ultrasound (US) and color doppler flow imaging are associated with certain limitations in the preprocedural evaluation and design of the puncture path for biopsies of thoracic lesions, such as a poorly defined boundary between the tumor and the atelectatic lesions in central lung cancer with atelectasis. Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) can be valuable in the preoperative evaluation of the biopsy site and in increasing the accuracy of the biopsy. The present study investigated the value of clinical application of CEUS in US-guided core needle biopsy (US-CNB) in improving the diagnostic accuracy in thoracic lesions. A total of 120 patients with first-stage thoracic lesions from the Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Guangxi Medical University who underwent US-CNB were recruited and randomnly assigned to a conventional US group (n=66) and a CEUS group (n=54). All patients underwent preoperative evaluation and US-guided puncture of thoracic lesions. The intergroup differences in sonographic features, biopsy duration, biopsy success rate and complications were assessed. The CEUS group had a higher rate of detection of necrotic tissue (40.7% vs. 16.7%; χ
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