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The focal hepatic lesion caused by local injection of absolute alcohol in rats was evaluated with ultrasonic contrast agent and pathologic examination. Twenty adult Wistar rats weighing about 200 g were injected with absolute alcohol (0.05–0.1 mL each one) on the exterior left lobe of the liver under the monitoring of ultrasound. Pulse inversion harmonic imaging was used to evaluate the focal lesion after bolus injection of ultrasonic contrast agent (0.05 mL/200 g) through caudal vein. Seven days later, the focal lesion was studied again as before. The exterior left lobe of liver with focal lesion was incised and underwent pathologic examination. The results showed that all of the focal lesions could be defined clearly after bolus injection of the ultrasonic contrast agent under the mode of pulse inversion harmonic imaging. There was good correlation between the size of the focal lesion measured by ultrasound on the 7th day after the “ablation” under the mode of pulse inversion harmonic imaging and that gotten by pathologic examination (P=0.39). The focus size measured by ultrasound right after the ablation was larger than that gotten by pathologic examination (P=0.002). It was concluded that ultrasonic contrast agent plus pulse inversion harmonic imaging could be used to assess the size of the focal hepatic lesion caused by local injection of absolute alcohol in rats.
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ZHANG Chao, male, born in 1976, Attending Physician
This project was supported by a grant from Hubei Provincial Natural Sciences Foundation of China (No. 2004ABA247).
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Chao, Z., Youbin, D., Daozhong, H. et al. Dynamic assessment of the focal hepatic lesion in rats using ultrasonic contrast agent. J. Huazhong Univ. Sci. Technol. [Med. Sci.] 26, 332–333 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02829567
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02829567