8 results on '"Quaia E."'
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2. Analysis of different contrast enhancement patterns after microbubble-based contrast agent injection in liver hemangiomas with atypical appearance on baseline scan
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Quaia, E., primary, Bartolotta, T. V., additional, Midiri, M., additional, Cernic, S., additional, Belgrano, M., additional, and Cova, M., additional
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- 2005
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3. Evidence of diagnostic enhancement pattern in hepatocellular carcinoma nodules ≤2 cm according to the AASLD/EASL revised criteria.
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Quaia E, De Paoli L, Angileri R, Pizzolato R, Cabibbo B, and Cova MA
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- Aged, Biopsy, Carcinoma, Hepatocellular diagnostic imaging, Carcinoma, Hepatocellular pathology, Contrast Media, Diagnosis, Differential, Female, Humans, Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted, Iohexol analogs & derivatives, Iopamidol analogs & derivatives, Liver Cirrhosis complications, Liver Neoplasms diagnostic imaging, Liver Neoplasms pathology, Male, Meglumine analogs & derivatives, Middle Aged, Organometallic Compounds, Phospholipids, Reproducibility of Results, Retrospective Studies, Subtraction Technique, Sulfur Hexafluoride, Ultrasonography, Carcinoma, Hepatocellular diagnosis, Liver Neoplasms diagnosis, Magnetic Resonance Imaging methods, Tomography, X-Ray Computed methods
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Purpose: To define the percentage of small (≤2 cm) hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) nodules showing the diagnostic enhancement pattern at CEUS, computed tomography (CT), and gadobenate dimeglumine (Gd-BOPTA)-enhanced magnetic resonance (MR) imaging., Methods: 42 cirrhotic patients (26 male, 16 female; 67 ± 12 years) with 46 biopsy-proven HCCs ≤2 cm were included. Each HCC was scanned by CEUS, contrast-enhanced CT, and Gd-BOPTA-enhanced MR imaging. Nodule enhancement was evaluated by two readers. Independent analysis was followed by consensual analysis and the proportion of HCCs with the diagnostic enhancement pattern (nodule hyperenhancing on hepatic arterial phase and hypoenhancing on portal venous-late phase) on CEUS, CT, and MR imaging was compared by chi-square test., Results: Very good inter-reader agreement was observed on hepatic arterial phase and portal venous-late phase: CEUS, k = 0.89 and 0.85; CT, k = 0.91 and 0.88; MR imaging, k = 0.96 and 0.94. CEUS and CT did not differ in the percentage of HCC nodules with a diagnostic enhancement pattern (18/46 and 16/46; P = 0.66), while MR imaging revealed the diagnostic pattern in higher percentage of nodules (29/46; P = 0.012) in comparison to CEUS and CT., Conclusions: CEUS and contrast-enhanced CT did not differ in the percentage of small HCC nodules with diagnostic enhancement pattern, while Gd-BOPTA-enhanced MR imaging revealed the diagnostic pattern in a higher nodule number in comparison to CEUS and CT.
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- 2013
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4. Contrast-enhanced ultrasound of the small bowel in Crohn's disease.
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Quaia E
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- Crohn Disease complications, Crohn Disease drug therapy, Humans, Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted, Ultrasonography, Contrast Media, Crohn Disease diagnostic imaging, Intestine, Small diagnostic imaging
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Crohn's disease (CD) is a chronic transmural inflammatory disease of the gastrointestinal tract characterized by episodes of inflammation alternating with periods of remission. Unenhanced grey-scale ultrasound may evaluate the localisation and the length of the affected intestinal segments and may detect transmural complications, including fistulas, abscesses and phlegmons, but it is less accurate to assess the CD activity. Contrast-enhanced ultrasound has become an important imaging modality in patients with CD for the grading of disease activity, the differentiation between small bowel stricture due to inflammation or mural fibrosis, and for the assessment of the response to specific therapy. New dedicated software packages allow the accurate quantification of the enhancement within the small bowel wall after microbubble contrast agent injection to obtain different kinetic semi-quantitative parameters-the percentage of the maximal enhancement, the time-to-the peak enhancement, and the area under the time-intensity curve-which are very useful to differentiate the inflammatory oedema from fibrosis and to differentiate responders from non-responders to the specific therapy among patients with CD.
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- 2013
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5. Solid focal liver lesions indeterminate by contrast-enhanced CT or MR imaging: the added diagnostic value of contrast-enhanced ultrasound.
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Quaia E
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- Carcinoma, Hepatocellular diagnostic imaging, Diagnosis, Differential, Hemangioma diagnostic imaging, Humans, Incidental Findings, Liver Cirrhosis complications, Liver Diseases diagnostic imaging, Liver Neoplasms complications, Liver Neoplasms diagnostic imaging, Liver Neoplasms secondary, Microbubbles, Radiographic Image Enhancement, Radionuclide Imaging, Ultrasonography, Image Enhancement, Liver Neoplasms diagnosis, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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The main clinically recognized application of contrast-enhanced US (CEUS) with microbubble contrast agents is the characterization of incidental focal liver lesions. CEUS with low transmit power insonation allows the real-time assessment of contrast enhancement in a focal liver lesion after microbubble contrast agent injection, during the arterial (10-25 s), portal venous (from 35 s up to 2 min) and late phase (4-6 min after microbubble injection). During the portal venous and late phase benign lesions appear hyper or iso-enhancing in comparison to the adjacent liver parenchyma, while malignant lesions prevalently present contrast washout with hypo-enhancing appearance. CEUS may provide an added diagnostic value in those incidental focal liver lesions in which contrast-enhanced CT or MR imaging are not conclusive. In particular, CEUS may provide an added diagnostic value in those focal liver lesions appearing indeterminate on single-phase CT scan, or on CT scans performed by an incorrect delay time or also after injection of a low dose of iodinated contrast agent, or also in those focal liver lesions revealing equivocal enhancement patterns on contrast-enhanced CT or MR imaging. CEUS may have an added diagnostic value also in hepatocellular nodules in a cirrhotic liver and can be considered a complementary imaging technique to CT.
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- 2012
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6. Inflammatory activity in Crohn's disease: CE-US.
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Migaleddu V, Quaia E, Scanu D, Carla S, Bertolotto M, Campisi G, Sirigu D, and Virgilio G
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- Humans, Inflammation diagnostic imaging, Microbubbles, Contrast Media, Crohn Disease diagnostic imaging, Ultrasonography methods
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The evaluation of inflammatory activity in Crohn's disease (CD), a crucial aspect of treatment planning and monitoring, is currently based on a sum of clinical data and imaging findings. Among the contrast enhanced cross-sectional imaging techniques (CE-US, CE-CT, CE-MR), CE-US is less invasive, more comfortable for the patient, and has significant diagnostic accuracy. In addition, it is a portable, easily repeatable, well tolerated, and ionizing radiation-free imaging modality. CE-US has been introduced as effective method in the quantitative and qualitative evaluation of CD inflammatory activity. CE-US might help in characterizing bowel-wall thickening by differentiating inflammatory neovascularisation, edema, and fibrosis. The recent chance to evaluate the bowel-wall stiffness by US elastography imaging could allow further assessment of fibrosis that characterizes the evolution of the inflammatory activity.
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- 2011
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7. Complete penile corporeal septation: evaluation with contrast enhanced US.
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Bertolotto M, Bucci S, Quaia E, Coss M, and Liguori G
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- Adult, Contrast Media, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Penis abnormalities, Penis blood supply, Penis injuries, Phospholipids, Sulfur Hexafluoride, Penis diagnostic imaging, Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color
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Background: Complete penile corporeal septation is a rare malformation in which the corpora cavernosa are completely isolated. We describe a new method to reach the diagnosis of this malformation using contrast enhanced US., Methods: Two patients with complete penile corporeal septation underwent color Doppler and contrast enhanced US after bilateral cavernosal injection of 10 microg prostaglandin E1. Contrast enhanced US was performed using a contrast specific software (Contrast-Tuned imaging, EsaOte, Genoa, Italy) and a linear transducer designed to evaluate superficial structures. Microbubbles of SonoVue (Bracco, Milan, Italy) were injected in one corpus cavernosum., Results: After cavernosal injection of microbubbles no adverse events were observed. Contrast enhanced US showed unilateral enhancement of the corpus cavernosum in which microbubbles were injected. Cavernosography confirmed unilateral corporeal opacification., Conclusion: Contrast enhanced US can be used effectively to diagnose complete penile corporeal septation.
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- 2008
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8. Inflammatory activity in Crohn disease: ultrasound findings.
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Migaleddu V, Quaia E, Scano D, and Virgilio G
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- Contrast Media, Humans, Inflammation diagnostic imaging, Prognosis, Crohn Disease diagnostic imaging, Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color
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Improvements in the ultrasound examination of bowel disease have registered in the last years the introduction of new technologies regarding high frequency probes (US), highly sensitive color or power Doppler units (CD-US), and the development of new non-linear technologies that optimize detection of contrast agents. Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CE-US) most importantly increases the results in sonographic evaluation of Crohn disease inflammatory activity. CE-US has become an imaging modality routinely employed in the clinical practice for the evaluation of parenchymal organs due to the introduction of new generation microbubble contrast agents which persist in the bloodstream for several minutes after intravenous injection. The availability of high frequency dedicated contrast-specific US techniques provide accurate depiction of small bowel wall perfusion due to the extremely high sensitivity of non-linear signals produced by microbubble insonation. In Crohn's disease, CE-US may characterize the bowel wall thickness by differentiating fibrosis from edema and may grade the inflammatory disease activity by assessing the presence and distribution of vascularity within the layers of the bowel wall (submucosa alone or the entire bowel wall). Peri-intestinal inflammatory involvement can be also characterized. CE-US can provide prognostic data concerning clinical recurrence of the inflammatory disease and evaluate the efficacy of drugs treatments.
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- 2008
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