Contrast-enhanced ultrasound clearly improves the differential diagnosis of hepatic tumors and is very helpful in clinical practice when B-scan or power Doppler morphological criteria are missing.
Doppler measurements of the portal vein, hepatic artery and hepatic vein(s) are not a valid surrogate marker of liver fibrosis. Nor are Doppler measurements a useful method to estimate the degree of liver fibrosis.
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