Conventional and contrast-enhanced ultrasound assessment of craniocerebral gunshot wounds
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Conventional and contrast-enhanced ultrasound assessment of craniocerebral gunshot wounds.
This study aimed to investigate the characteristic features of craniocerebral gunshot wounds by conventional ultrasound (CUS) and evaluate the efficacy of contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) in differentiation of tissue condition in wounds. Twenty crossbreed dogs (treatment: N = 15; control: N = 5) were used in the study. Pipe-shaped hyperechoes of varying size were found by CUS in most of the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Genetics and Molecular Research
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1676-5680
DOI: 10.4238/2015.april.13.14