title: Contrast-enhanced sonography with SonoVue: enhancement patterns of benign focal liver lesions and correlation with dynamic gadobenate dimeglumine-enhanced MRI.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Contrast-enhanced real-time low-mechanical-index sonography is a new diagnostic technique for the assessment of macro- and microcirculation. The purpose of our article is to describe contrast-enhancement patterns of different benign focal liver lesions using the second-generation contrast agent SonoVue and to compare these findings with those of gadobenate dimeglumine-enhanced MRI.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  SonoVue-enhanced real-time low-mechanical-index sonography provides specific contrast-enhancement patterns of different benign focal liver lesions, allowing accurate characterization. Findings on SonoVue-enhanced sonography correlate well with those obtained on gadobenate dimeglumine-enhanced MRI.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Radiologiche, Policlinico Umberto I -Università La Sapienza, V. le Regina Elena, Rome 324 00161, Italy. paolo.ricci@uniroma1.it
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ricci
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Laghi
authors.forename: Vito
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Cantisani
authors.forename: Pasquale
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Paolantonio
authors.forename: Sara
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pacella
authors.forename: Elisa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pagliara
authors.forename: Federico
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Arduini
authors.forename: Valerio
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Pasqualini
authors.forename: Francesca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Trippa
authors.forename: Marzia
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Filpo
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Passariello
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003287:Contrast Media; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008536:Meglumine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009942:Organometallic Compounds; D011859:Radiography; D014463:Ultrasonography
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media; D009942:Organometallic Compounds; C064572:gadobenic acid; D008536:Meglumine