title: [Contrast-enhanced sonography and endoscopic ultrasound for the diagnosis of pancreatic diseases].
abstract: Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) has increased the diagnostic spectrum of clinical ultrasound. Especially the introduction of specific contrast-enhanced software in connection with the development of second generation contrast enhancers has enabled the development of CEUS to a stage where it sometimes furnishes better diagnostic results than any other cross-sectional diagnostic imaging method. The present article should provide the reader with an overview about the diagnostic possibilities of CEUS including contrast-enhanced endoscopic ultrasound. The reader should then be able to understand the weaknesses and strengths of CEUS in the diagnostic apporach to pancreatic diseases.
authors.affiliation: Medizinische Klinik II, Klinikum Meiningen GmbH, Meiningen, Deutschland.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hocke
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Innere Medizin 2, Caritas-Krankenhaus, Bad Mergentheim, Deutschland.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dietrich
mesh_terms: D003287:Contrast Media; D019160:Endosonography / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D010182:Pancreatic Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D018615:Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media