1. Chinese Expert Consensus and Guidelines on Oral Contrast Gastric Ultrasonography for Scanning Technique and Imaging Acquisition
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Guangxia Wang, Liying Miao, Yanfang Zhou, Xuemei He, Yinrong Cheng, Yuan Li, Ji-Bin Liu, Kang Wang, Ling Guan, Man Lu, Jianqiang Mao, Tingting Li, Jingyu Wang, Changjun Wu, Lu Wang, Xiaoxia Dou, Lixue Yin, Kairong Lei, Dong Xu, Jin Yan, Xingxing Duan, Zhiqing Cai, Shengjun Ma, Xiaoyan Li, Zhi Ding, Lina Tang, and Wenming Lu
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medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Expert consensus ,General Medicine ,key words: gastric ultrasound|oral contrast agent|guideline|upper gi abnormalities ,medicine ,Medical technology ,Contrast (vision) ,Medicine ,Radiology ,Ultrasonography ,R855-855.5 ,business ,human activities ,media_common - Abstract
Upper gastrointestinal (GI) abnormalities are one of the most common disease in clinical practice, and among them, gastric cancer is one of the most common causes of cancer-related death in China. However, conventional trans-abdominal ultrasound is difficult to evaluate GI diseases due to gas filled in the GI tract. With the development of oral contrast agents in China, ultrasonography with oral contrast agent has been used to visualize upper GI tract (i.e., stomach and duodenum) as well as its surrounding structures. The primary purposes of this consensus and guideline written by Chinese experts is to provide a coherent and clinical perspectives and practical protocol for using oral contrast in upper GI ultrasound, including four components: (1) indications and contraindications of gastric contrast ultrasound; (2) patients and instruments preparation; (3) scanning technique and imaging acquisition; (4) diagnosis of upper GI abnormalities.
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- 2020