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Case Reports
. 2023 Jul-Aug;51(6):1112-1114.
doi: 10.1002/jcu.23510. Epub 2023 Jun 14.

Liver metastases in renal cell carcinoma: The vascularization pattern and the wash out phenomenon

Clemens Stiegler  1 , Christine Schießl  1 , Claus Schäfer  1
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Liver metastases in renal cell carcinoma: The vascularization pattern and the wash out phenomenon

Clemens Stiegler et al. J Clin Ultrasound. 2023 Jul-Aug.

Abstract

The wash out behavior of focal liver lesions in contrast-enhanced ultrasound plays a central role in tumor classification. Besides hepatocellular carcinomas, other hypervascular tumor entities like renal cell carcinomas may also show a very late wash out, possibly caused by portal-venous tumor vessels. There is need to observe long enough in the late phase in order to classify them correctly.

Keywords: CEUS; hypervascular liver metastasis; portal-venous blood supply; renal cell cancer; wash out.

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