title: EFSUMB Guidelines on Interventional Ultrasound (INVUS), Part III - Abdominal Treatment Procedures (Long Version).
abstract: The third part of the European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (EFSUMB) Guidelines on Interventional Ultrasound (INVUS) assesses the evidence for ultrasound-guided and assisted interventions in abdominal treatment procedures. Recommendations for clinical practice are presented covering indications, contraindications, and safe and effective performance of the broad variety of these techniques. In particular, drainage of abscesses and fluid collections, interventional tumor ablation techniques, interventional treatment of symptomatic cysts and echinococcosis, percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography and drainage, percutaneous gastrostomy, urinary bladder drainage, and nephrostomy are addressed (long version).
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine 2, Caritas Krankenhaus, Bad Mergentheim, Germany.
authors.forename: C F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Dietrich
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastric Surgery, Ultrasound Section, Herlev Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lorentzen
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Appelbaum
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, Ospedale Maggiore Crema, Italy.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Buscarini
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiological Sciences, Oncology and Pathology, Policlinico Umberto I, Univ. Sapienza, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Cantisani
authors.affiliation: Department of Adult Radiology, Paris-Descartes University and Necker University Hospital, Paris, and Institut Langevin - Inserm U979, Paris, France.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Correas
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine 2, Caritas Krankenhaus, Bad Mergentheim, Germany.
authors.forename: X W
authors.initials: XW
authors.lastname: Cui
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, GB Rossi University Hospital, University of Verona, Italy.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: D'Onofrio
authors.affiliation: National Centre for Ultrasound in Gastroenterology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen Norway and Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Norway.
authors.forename: O H
authors.initials: OH
authors.lastname: Gilja
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine 2, Helios Hospital Meiningen GmbH, Meiningen, Germany.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hocke
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine 2, Caritas Krankenhaus, Bad Mergentheim, Germany.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ignee
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Krankenhaus Märkisch Oderland Strausberg/Wriezen, Germany.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jenssen
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Akdeniz University Medical Faculty, Antalya, Turkey.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kabaalioğlu
authors.affiliation: Imperial College London and Imaging Department, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, London, UK.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Leen
authors.affiliation: Radiology Department, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Nicolau
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastric Surgery, Ultrasound Section, Herlev Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
authors.forename: C P
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Nolsøe
authors.affiliation: Diagnostic Radiology Institute, Paula Stradins Clinical University Hospital, Riga, Latvia.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Radzina
authors.affiliation: Diagnostic and Interventional Ultrasound Unit, Department of Organ Failure and Transplantation, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital Bologna, Italy.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Serra
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, King's College Hospital, London, UK.
authors.forename: P S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Sidhu
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, Institute for Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, "Iuliu Hatieganu" Cluj-Napoca, Institute for Gastroenterology and Hepatology "O.Fodor" Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Sparchez
authors.affiliation: Unit of Internal Medicine, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Piscaglia
mesh_terms: D000005:Abdomen / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery*; D018784:Abdominal Abscess / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D002767:Cholecystostomy / Q000379:methods; D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003560:Cysts / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005774:Gastrostomy / Q000379:methods; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery; D009403:Nephrostomy, Percutaneous / Q000379:methods; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000379:methods; D019152:Paracentesis / Q000379:methods; D015911:Sclerotherapy / Q000379:methods; D012955:Societies, Medical; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional / Q000379:methods*