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HDlive Flow silhouette mode for the diagnosis of uterine enhanced myometrial vascularity/arteriovenous malformations

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We present our initial experience of using the HDlive Flow silhouette mode to construct images of two cases of uterine enhanced myometrial vascularity/arteriovenous malformations (EMV/AVMs). In the first case, the HDlive Flow silhouette mode clearly depicted a fused vascular tumor with irregular contour in the posterior myometrium. In the second case, a large hypervascular mass occupying the entire fundal lesion of the uterus was clearly identified using the HDlive Flow silhouette mode. Moreover, spatial relationships among the hypervascular mass, intrauterine blood collection, and dilated, spiral-shaped right uterine artery enabled the clear localization of the mass. The HDlive Flow silhouette mode provides a novel, unique sonographic image of uterine EMV/AVMs, and might facilitate their diagnosis and localization in the myometrium.

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  1. Department of Perinatology and Gynecology, Kagawa University Graduate School of Medicine, 1750-1 Ikenobe, Miki, Kagawa, 761-0793, Japan

    Chiaki Tenkumo, Kenji Kanenishi, Mohamed Ahmed Mostafa AboEllail, Kenta Yamamoto, Megumi Ishibashi, Nobuhiro Mori, Hirokazu Tanaka & Toshiyuki Hata

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All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008. Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.

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Tenkumo, C., Kanenishi, K., AboEllail, M.A.M. et al. HDlive Flow silhouette mode for the diagnosis of uterine enhanced myometrial vascularity/arteriovenous malformations. J Med Ultrasonics 45, 349–352 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10396-017-0823-4

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