Advances in Lung Ultrasound in Cancer Patients

A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Methods and Technologies Development".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 August 2025 | Viewed by 1144

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Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Interests: thoracic imaging; saging; lung cancer; ultrasound; lung ultrasound; CEUS; oncologic imaging

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Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Interests: lung cancer; ultrasound; lung ultrasound; CEUS; elastography; oncologic Imaging

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Dear Colleagues,

Computed tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography-CT (PET-CT) are the primary imaging modalities for diagnosing and staging neoplastic lung lesions. However, lung ultrasound (LUS) can serve as a valuable complementary method. LUS is used in clinical practice for the histologic confirmation of lung lesions and can be advantageous in the staging of lung cancer. Additionally, contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) provides valuable information in evaluating pulmonary lesions. This Special Issue aims to highlight the benefits of ultrasound as a complementary method to cross-sectional imaging in the evaluation of neoplastic lung lesions.

Dr. Helmut Prosch
Dr. Ehsan Safai Zadeh
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • lung ultrasound
  • neoplastic pleuro-pulmonary lesions
  • lung cancer
  • oncologic imaging
  • ultrasound
  • CEUS
  • elastography

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Perfusion Patterns of Peripheral Pulmonary Metastasis Using Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) and Their Correlation with Immunohistochemically Detected Vascularization Pattern
by Johannes Kroenig, Christian Görg, Helmut Prosch, Lara Von Schumann, Christina C. Westhoff, Amjad Alhyari, Felix R. M. Koenig, Hajo Findeisen and Ehsan Safai Zadeh
Cancers 2024, 16(19), 3365; https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers16193365 - 1 Oct 2024
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Purpose: Description of the perfusion of pulmonary metastasis by contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) and their correlation with vascularization patterns represented by immunohistochemical CD34 endothelial staining. Patients and methods: The data of 54 patients with histologic proven peripheral pulmonary metastasis, investigated between 2004 and 2023 [...] Read more.
Purpose: Description of the perfusion of pulmonary metastasis by contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) and their correlation with vascularization patterns represented by immunohistochemical CD34 endothelial staining. Patients and methods: The data of 54 patients with histologic proven peripheral pulmonary metastasis, investigated between 2004 and 2023 by CEUS. These CEUS parameters were evaluated: time to enhancement (TE), categorized as early pulmonary-arterial (PA) or delayed bronchial-arterial (BA) patterns; extent of enhancement (EE), either marked or reduced; homogeneity of enhancement (HE), homogeneous or inhomogeneous; and decrease of enhancement (DE), rapid washout (<120 s) or late washout (≥120 s). Additionally, tissue samples in 45 cases (83.3%) were stained with CD34 antibody for immunohistochemical analysis. Results: In total, 4 lesions (7.4 %) exhibited PA enhancement, and 50 lesions (92.6%) demonstrated BA enhancement. Furthermore, 37 lesions (68.5%) showed marked enhancement, while 17 lesions (31.5%) exhibited reduced enhancement. The enhancement was homogeneous in 28 lesions (51.86%) and inhomogeneous in 26 lesions (48.14%). Additionally, 53 lesions (98.1%) displayed a rapid washout. A chaotic vascular pattern indicative of a bronchial arterial blood supply was identified in all cases (45/45, 100%), including all 4 lesions with PA enhancement. Conclusion: Pulmonary metastases in CEUS predominantly reveal bronchial arterial enhancement and a rapid washout. Regarding EE and HE, pulmonary metastases show heterogeneous perfusion patterns. A PA enhancement in CEUS does not exclude BA neoangiogenesis. Full article
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