Intravenous contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) in children with hepatoblastoma and neuroblastoma

Purpose: Imaging in paediatric malignancies plays a pivotal role and ultrasonography is the first-line technique in children. Only very limited experience exists concerning possible indications, examination strategies and perfusion characteristics using intravenous contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS). The possible value of CEUS in children with hepatoblastoma and neuroblastoma will be presented. Patients and methods: More than one third (35.7%) of 106 children investigated with CEUS in the Paediatric Ultrasonography Unit, Hannover Medical School had paediatric malignancies. CEUS was performed in 6 children with…