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| Contrast-enhanced ultrasonography for intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: A cost-effective alternative for low-resource settings |
| Charlie Fife Michael Pitcairn # , Michal Kawka # , ∗ |
Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK
∗ Corresponding author.
E-mail address: michal.kawka17@imperial.ac.uk (M. Kawka).
# Contributed equally. |
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Abstract We would like to congratulate Tian and colleagues on their recent article: Diagnostic value of contrast-enhanced ultrasonography for intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma with tumor diameter larger than 5 cm [1]. They argued that, despite not being included in the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) guidelines for the diagnosis of liver diseases, contrast-enhanced ultrasonography (CEUS) can be of use for diagnosis of large ( > 5 cm), mass-forming intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC). We would like to highlight the added value that CEUS can present in low-resource settings, where other diagnostic modalities may be neither cost-effective nor readily available.
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2021, Vol. 20 
