Abstract
Color Doppler ultrasound is useful in differentiating benign and malignant liver tumor. Its usefulness in malignant biliary thrombus was rarely reported. A total of 12 patients (M/F: 7/5: ages ranged 43 to approximately 67 years) with liver malignant tumors and biliary invasion were studied with color Doppler ultrasound with 3.5 MHz convex probe (SSA-340 A, Toshiba, Japan). The pathological and/or cytological diagnoses of their liver tumors as well as biliary thrombi were hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in 8 patients, cholangiocarcinoma in 3 patients and gallbladder cancer in 1 patient. Color signal with pulsatile flow was detected from the biliary thrombi in 7 patients, including 6 patients with HCC and one with cholangiocarcimona. Color Doppler ultrasound may be useful in detection of blood flow from malignant biliary thrombus.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | A157 |
| Journal | Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue number | SUPPL. 2 |
| State | Published - 2000 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | The 9th Congress of World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology - Florence, Italy Duration: 06 05 2000 → 10 05 2000 |
