The AFSUMB consensus statements and recommendations for the clinical practice of contrast-enhanced ultrasound using sonazoid

Jae Young Lee¹, Yasunori Minami², Byung Ihn Choi³, Won Jae Lee⁴, Yi-Hong Chou⁵, Woo Kyoung Jeong⁴, Mi-Suk Park⁶, Nobuki Kudo⁷, Min Woo Lee⁴, Ken Kamata², Hiroko Iijima⁸, So Yeon Kim⁹, Kazushi Numata¹⁰, Katsutoshi Sugimoto¹¹, Hitoshi Maruyama¹², Yasukiyo Sumino¹³, Chikara Ogawa¹⁴, Masayuki Kitano¹⁵, Ijin Joo¹, Junichi Arita¹⁶, Ja-Der Liang¹⁷, Hsi-Ming Lin¹⁸, Christian Nolsoe¹⁹, Odd Helge Gilja²⁰, Masatoshi Kudo^2
1 Department of Radiology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea
² Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Faculty of Medicine, Kindai University, Higashi-Osaka, Japan
³ Department of Radiology, Chung Ang University Hospital, Seoul, Korea
⁴ Department of Radiology and Center for Imaging Science, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
⁵ Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Technology, Yuanpei University of Medical Technology, Hsinchu, Taiwan; Department of Radiology, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
⁶ Department of Radiology, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
⁷ Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
⁸ Department of Ultrasound, Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Disease, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan
⁹ Department of Radiology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
¹⁰ Gastroenterological Center, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan
¹¹ Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
¹² Department of Gastroenterology, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan
¹³ Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Toho University Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan
¹⁴ Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Takamatsu Red Cross Hospital, Takamatsu, Japan
¹⁵ Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Wakayama Medical University Hospital, Wakayama, Japan
¹⁶ Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery Division and Artificial Organ and Transplantation Division, Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
¹⁷ Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
¹⁸ Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Chang Gung University, Taipei, Taiwan
¹⁹ Ultrasound Section, Division of Surgery, Department of Gastroenterology, Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen Academy for Medical Education and Simulation, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
²⁰ National Centre for Ultrasound in Gastroenterology, Haukeland University Hospital; Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Correspondence Address:
Byung Ihn Choi
Department of Radiology, Chung Ang University Hospital, Seoul
Korea
Masatoshi Kudo
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Faculty of Medicine, Kindai University, Higashi-Osaka
Japan

Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None

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DOI: 10.4103/JMU.JMU_124_19