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Contrast-Enhanced Sonography for Diagnosis of Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

¹ All authors: Department of Radiology, S. Maria delle Grazie Hospital, Via Domitiani, Pozzuoli 80078, Italy.

OBJECTIVE. We describe the contrast-specific sonography features of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm, and we hypothesize that this technique would be useful for emergency imaging of patients with suspected aneurysm rupture.

CONCLUSION. We used contrast-specific sonography to assess eight patients with ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. Five of these cases were correlated with CT findings. We found that contrast-enhanced sonography can reveal features specific for ruptured aortic aneurysm without causing a significant delay in surgery. This technique may be as effective as CT but may allow a more rapid and noninvasive diagnosis, especially when sonography can be performed bedside.

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