ReviewPediatric radiology2021
Contrast-enhanced ultrasound of the spleen, pancreas and gallbladder in children.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.
- Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) in urgent and emergent pediatric conditions: a comprehensive review.Emergency radiology · 2026Review
- The Safety of Ultrasound Contrast Agents in Children.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Pediatric contrast-enhanced ultrasound in clinical practice: evidence maturity and workflow integration.Frontiers in radiology · 2026Review
- Expanding Role of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound and Elastography in the Evaluation of Abdominal Pathologies in Children.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Ultrasound innovations in abdominal radiology: techniques and clinical applications in pediatric imaging.Abdominal radiology (New York) · 2025Review
- Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Urologic Practice and Training.Current urology reports · 2025Review
- Intra-abdominal multi-organ involvement of kaposiform hemangioendothelioma in a child with Kasabach-Merritt phenomenon and contrast-enhanced ultrasound findings: a case report.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Microbubbles in the belly: optimizing the protocol for contrast-enhanced ultrasound of the pediatric abdomen.Pediatric radiology · 2023Review
- Identification of secondary splenic lymphoma with contrast-enhanced ultrasound in the pediatric population. A case report.Radiology case reports · 2022Article
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11 authors at 10 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
Gray-scale and color/power Doppler ultrasound (US) are the first-line imaging modalities to evaluate the spleen, gallbladder and pancreas in children. The increasing use of contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) as a reliable and safe method to evaluate liver lesions in the pediatric population promises potential for imaging other internal organs. Although CEUS applications of the spleen, gallbladder and pancreas have been well described in adults, they have not been fully explored in children. In this manuscript, we present an overview of the applications of CEUS for normal variants and diseases affecting the spleen, gallbladder and pancreas. We highlight a variety of cases as examples of how CEUS can serve in the diagnosis and follow-up for such diseases in children. Our discussion includes specific examination techniques; presentation of the main imaging findings in various benign and malignant lesions of the spleen, gallbladder and pancreas in children; and acknowledgment of the limitations of CEUS for these organs.
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