Guidelines and Good Clinical Practice Recommendations for Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) in the Liver – Update 2020 – WFUMB in Cooperation with EFSUMB, AFSUMB, AIUM, and FLAUS
Christoph F. Dietrich [1], [2] *, Christian Pállson Nolsøe [3] *, Richard G. Barr [4] , Annalisa Berzigotti [5] , Peter N Burns [6] , Vito Cantisani [7] , Maria Cristina Chammas [8] , Nitin Chaubal [9] , Byung Ihn Choi [10] , Dirk-André Clevert [11] , Xinwu Cui [12] , Yi Dong [13] , Mirko D’Onofrio [14] , J. Brian Fowlkes [15] , Odd Helge Gilja [16] , Pintong Huang [17] , Andre Ignee [18] , Christian Jenssen [19] , Yuko Kono [20], Masatoshi Kudo [21] , Nathalie Lassau [22] , Won Jae Lee [23] , Jae Young Lee [24] , Ping Liang [25] , Adrian Lim [26] , Andrej Lyshchik [27] , Maria Franca Meloni [28] , Jean Michel Correas [29] , Yasunori Minami [30] , Fuminori Moriyasu [31] , Carlos Nicolau [32] , Fabio Piscaglia [33] , Adrian Saftoiu [34] , Paul S. Sidhu [35] , Ioan Sporea [36] , Guido Torzilli [37] , Xiaoyan Xie [38] , Rongqin Zheng [39]
Affiliation addresses are listed at the end of the article
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received 30.04.2020
accepted 12.05.2020
Ultraschall in Med 2020; 41: 562–585
Published online: July 24, 2020
DOI https://doi.org/10.1055/a-1177-0530
ISSN 0172-4614
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Prof. Dr. med. Christoph F. Dietrich
Department Allgemeine Innere Medizin (DAIM), Kliniken
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Keywords
contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS), World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (WFUMB), guideline, liver