PURPOSE Prostate cancer grading with Gleason score is an important prognostic factor. This prospective randomized study compares ultrasound systematic biopsy vs contrast enhanced color Doppler targeted biopsy for the impact on Gleason score findings. MATERIALS AND METHODS We examined 690 men (mean age 56 years, range 41 to 77) with a serum total prostate specific antigen of 1.25 ng/ml or grea...

Objective- The purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility of performing echocardiography in apparently healthy pigeons, and measurement of the quantitative cardiac indices using B-mode and Doppler techniques. Design- Experimental study Animals- Ten apparently healthy pigeons Procedures- Echocardi...

PURPOSE We performed a prospective comparison of the use of twinkling color Doppler ultrasound and noncontrast computerized tomography in the diagnosis of renal colic in emergency room patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 815 consecutive adult patients with suspected renal colic presented to the emergency room and were evaluated immediately with color Doppler ultrasound and noncontrast ...

Objectives. To investigate the detection rate of major fetal heart defects in a low-risk population implementing routine use of color Doppler. Material and Methods. In a prospective observational study, all women undergoing fetal heart scanning (including 6781 routine examinations in the second trimester) during a three-year period were included. First a gray-scale scanning was performed includ...

Background The color Doppler, a better investigation to identify the perforators objectively has replaced the clinical examination for the same. However, this has led to a significant number of negative explorations and cosmetic disfigurement. Objective To compare the efficacy of the clinical tests combined with the color Doppler versus color Doppler alone to identify the perforator incompetenc...

Ultrasound analysis plays an important role in the assessment of morphology of different forms of cancerous lesions. However, owing to the large number of false positive results, the accuracy of the technique has been largely restrictive in nature. Pulsed Doppler spectral analysis and color Doppler imaging enable the evaluation of blood vessel distribution, tumor blood flow, and quantitative me...

We report a case of a 50-year-old male who presented to the Emergency Department and was diagnosed with epididymo-orchitis. Sonographic evaluation of the testicle initially showed a normal, low resistance color Doppler waveform. The patient was admitted to the hospital. A follow up sonogram two days later demonstrated reversal of diastolic arterial flow on Pulse-Wave color Doppler imaging. Reve...

The value of transvaginal B-mode ultrasonography combined with color velocity imaging and pulsed Doppler to detect retained trophoblastic tissue was evaluated prospectively in a series of 40 patients with postpartum (n = 15) or postabortion (n = 25) bleeding. Color velocity imaging was used to identify color-coded blood flow signals within myometrium and/or endometrium. Flow was subjectively qu...

t a fi d T t p n r r l fi w N of Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging, to an emerging technique: ultrasound elastography. This issue provides the readers with information necessary to understand this new modality on the eve of its clinical expansion. Analogies with the development of pulsed wave and color Doppler modes are important, especially for techniques providing two-dimensional color-co...