An ultrasound-guided liver biopsy is a routine procedure in which doctors remove a small piece of liver tissue for analysis in a lab. Your doctor might recommend this procedure if they suspect there ...

An increasing number of people are discovering fatty liver during routine ultrasound tests, often without any obvious symptoms. Doctors explain what this finding really means, why it is becoming more ...

A liver biopsy is a diagnostic procedure that samples a person’s liver tissue to check for any abnormalities. Specialists, such as imaging physicians and diagnostic medical sonographers, may use an ...

A liver ultrasound is a noninvasive test a doctor orders to examine the liver, its blood vessels, and sometimes the gallbladder. Abnormal results may indicate a person has liver disease or signal an ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Contrast-enhanced ultrasound and FibroScan could potentially be used to measure and monitor any changes in the ...

Over 2 billion people globally are living with, or at risk for, liver disease, and many of them don’t even know it. This is being accelerated by the rise of Non Alcohol Fatty Liver, which affects up ...

As waistlines grow, more people’s weight is on the rise, and so is fatty liver disease. It’s a serious medical condition that increases the risk of liver cancer and cirrhosis, but now doctors can ...

Doctors have a new emerging weapon in the fight against cancerous tumors: ultrasound. After a five-year study by the ...

The diagnostics advisory committee reviewed the evidence on the clinical and cost effectiveness of contrast-enhanced ultrasound with SonoVue and noted that the technology was assessed in 3 clinical ...

Impact of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force update for breast cancer screening on mammography utilization in women age 40 to 49. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2012 Breast Cancer ...