Paediatric Liver Ultrasound: a Pictorial Essay

Overview

Journal J Ultrasound

Publisher Springer

Specialty Radiology

Date 2019 Feb 20

PMID 30778891

Citations 9

Authors

Marco Di Serafino

Rosa Severino

Matilde Gioioso

Eugenio Rossi

Norberto Vezzali

Piernicola Pelliccia

Maria Grazia Caprio

Ciro Acampora

Raffaele Iorio

Gianfrancio Vallone

Affiliations

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Abstract

Ultrasound scan is a painless and radiation-free imaging modality and, therefore, it is widely considered the first-choice diagnostic tool in the setting of hepatopathies in paediatric patients. This article focuses on the normal ultrasound anatomy of the liver in neonatal and paediatric age and reviews the ultrasound appearance of the most common diffuse and focal liver affections.

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