title: Assessment of renal cell carcinoma after cryoablation using contrast-enhanced gray-scale ultrasound: a case series.
abstract: We performed contrast-enhanced gray-scale harmonic ultrasound (CUS) in three patients with renal cell carcinoma after cryoablation. CUS showed the decreased enhancement similar to the findings of CT or MRI. It identified feeding vessels more distinctly and found a larger number compared with CT or MRI. A persistent feeder in one case was related to recurrence. CUS may potentially be an alternative to CT and MRI and a useful method in the prediction of recurrent and residual tumors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, North 15 West 7, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-8638, Japan. qiangzhu@radi.med.hokudai.ac.jp
authors.forename: Qiang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Tadashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shimizu
authors.forename: Hideho
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Endo
authors.forename: Yoshihisa
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kodama
authors.forename: Daisuke
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Abo
authors.forename: Kazuo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Miyasaka
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery*; D003287:Contrast Media; D003452:Cryosurgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011134:Polysaccharides; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media; D011134:Polysaccharides; C059891:SHU 508