ReviewDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2025
Washout on Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound of Benign Focal Liver Lesions-A Review on Its Frequency and Possible Causes.
Review in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
- Bubbles in the barely born-contrast-enhanced ultrasound in neonates: a single-center experience.European journal of pediatrics · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
In all imaging methods, including contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS), enhancement in the late phase (LP) is an important criterion for differentiating between benign and malignant focal liver lesions (FLLs). In general, malignant liver lesions are characterized by hypoenhancement and washout in the LP. A lesion with LP hyperenhancement or isoenhancement in the non-cirrhotic liver is usually benign. However, LP hypoenhancement in benign lesions is not so rare, and is even normal and the standard for some lesions, and there are exceptions for each tumor entity that can represent a diagnostic challenge. Knowing these contrast patterns and exceptions is key for correct diagnosis and patient management. The following narrative review describes the contrast behaviors and the frequency of washout and LP hypoenhancement for common as well as rare benign liver lesions and analyzes its causes.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What Socratic holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.