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Ultraschall Med 2008; 29(1): 28-44
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-963785
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-963785
Guidelines
© Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York
Guidelines and Good Clinical Practice Recommendations for Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) - Update 2008
Further Information
Publication History
received: 7.12.2007
accepted: 10.12.2007
Publication Date:
12 February 2008 (online)

Key words
contrast agent - liver - urinary - v. ureteric reflux - pancreas - trauma - transcranial US
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Prof. Michel CLAUDON
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