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Hamartoma

New hamartoma study findings recently were published by researchers at University of Basel

Published in Cancer Weekly, June 16th, 2009

According to a study from Basel, Switzerland, "A 49 year old male with carcinoma of the esophagus was staged using conventional US of the abdomen. US revealed signs of cirrhosis and a hyporeflexive focal liver lesion of about 5 mm in diameter was found."

"Low-MI contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) with SonoVue (Bracco, Milano, Italy) showed an enhancement pattern which was typical for benign liver lesions while high-MI CEUS with Levovist (Schering, Berlin, Germany) revealed a contrast defect in the liver late phase (4:30 min p.i.) which is typical for a malignant lesion. Due to these findings the lesion was evaluated as a potentially malignant lesion and a biopsy was...

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