title: Contrast-enhanced ultrasound for diagnosis of prostate cancer and kidney lesions.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Conventional ultrasonography of both, kidney and prostate, is limited due to the poor contrast of B-mode imaging for parenchymal disease and limited sensitivity of colour Doppler for the detection of capillaries and deep pedicular vessels. Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) overcomes these limitations.
  
  
  RESULTS
  CEUS investigates the blood flow of the prostate, allows for prostate cancer visualization and for targeted biopsies. Comparisons between systematic and CEUS-targeted biopsies have shown that the targeted approach detects more cancers with a lower number of biopsy cores and with higher Gleason scores compared with the systematic approach. Also the kidney offers promising applications as CEUS improves the detection of abnormal microvascular and macrovascular disorders.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In recent literature CEUS has shown its value for diagnosis of both, prostate cancer and kidney lesions. This paper describes recent improvements and future perspectives of CEUS.
authors: Department of Urology, University of Innsbruck, Anichstrasse 35, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria. michael.mitterberger@uibk.ac.at
authors: Michael
authors: M
authors: Mitterberger
authors: Alexandre
authors: A
authors: Pelzer
authors: Daniela
authors: D
authors: Colleselli
authors: Georg
authors: G
authors: Bartsch
authors: Hannes
authors: H
authors: Strasser
authors: Leo
authors: L
authors: Pallwein
authors: Friedrich
authors: F
authors: Aigner
authors: Johann
authors: J
authors: Gradl
authors: Ferdinand
authors: F
authors: Frauscher
mesh_terms: D001706:Biopsy; D003287:Contrast Media; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D007668:Kidney / Q000098:blood supply / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D011467:Prostate / Q000098:blood supply / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D018608:Ultrasonography, Doppler; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media