Surgical Oncology
Report summarizes surgical oncology study findings from Fourth Military Medical University
Published in Hospital Business Week, November 9th, 2008
"We investigated effects of high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) combined with contrast agent SonoVue on rabbit VX2 liver tumors by using conventional gray-scale ultrasonography (US), color/power Doppler (CD/PD) US, contrast-enhanced color Doppler (CE CD) US, and contrast-enhanced pulse-inversion harmonic (CE PIH) US. Fourteen days after implantation of VX2 tumors in livers of 50 rabbits, animals were randomly separated into two groups," scientists in Xian, People's Republic of China report.
"Based on principles of HIFU, the volume of the tumor was divided into several parallel ''planes'' to be ablated. Before ablation on each ''plane,'' 0.2 mL SonoVue was injected...
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