Predictive value of quantitative contrast-enhanced ultrasound in hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence after ablation
Yi Gao, Zheng Cui, Yan Ma, Department of Ultrasound in Medicine, Tongji University Affiliated East Hospital, Shanghai 200120, China
Dong-Yan Zheng, Department of Ultrasound in Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University Affiliated Sixth People’s Hospital, Shanghai 200233, China
Yuan-Zhi Liu, Department of first Gastroenterology, Capital Medical University Affiliated Beijing You’an Hospital, Beijing 100069, China
Wei Zhang, Department of Radiology, Beijing Jishuitan Hospital, Beijing 100035, China
Author contributions: Gao Y and Zheng DY contributed equally to this work; Gao Y, Zheng DY and Cui Z designed the research; Gao Y, Zheng DY, Cui Z, Ma Y, Liu YZ and Zhang W performed the research; Ma Y, Liu YZ and Zhang W contributed new reagents/analytic tools; Gao Y, Zheng DY and Cui Z analyzed the data; and Gao Y and Zheng DY wrote the paper.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the Department of Ultrasound in Medicine, Tongji University Affiliated East Hospital, Shanghai Institutional Review Board.
Clinical trial registration statement: This study is not registered as a Clinical trial as all the data were gained from an ultrasound system.
Informed consent statement: All study participants, or their legal guardian, provided informed written consent prior to study enrollment.
Conflict-of-interest statement: We declare that there are no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Zheng Cui, BD, Deputy Chief Physician, Department of Ultrasound in Medicine, Tongji University Affiliated East Hospital, No. 150 Jimo Road, Shanghai 200120, China.
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Received: March 15, 2015
Peer-review started: March 15, 2015
First decision: April 13, 2015
Revised: May 28, 2015
Accepted: June 15, 2015
Article in press: June 16, 2015
Published online: September 28, 2015
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