Histotripsy is a new, FDA-approved, minimally invasive technique that destroys liver tumors using high-frequency ultrasound waves. For some patients with liver cancer, they could be spared invasive ...

Doctors have a new emerging weapon in the fight against cancerous tumors: ultrasound. After a five-year study by the ...

For the first time, the FDA has given the green light to histotripsy technology, which uses focused ultrasound waves to noninvasively destroy a designated tissue or tumor. The de novo clearance went ...

What Is a Liver Ultrasound? A liver ultrasound is a type of abdominal ultrasound, an imaging test that uses high-frequency sound waves to create pictures of the organs and structures in your abdomen, ...

Fatty liver disease, often referred to as metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), is becoming one of the most common chronic health conditions in the world. It is driven by ...

Ultrasound of the abdominal organs is a central diagnostic tool and is recommended as the first-line approach for many medical conditions. Compared with other imaging modalities such as computed ...

Endoscopy can be used along with other tests to confirm a diagnosis of cirrhosis and help a doctor decide what treatments might be best. An endoscopy is done by inserting a thin, lighted tube with a ...

As the global burden of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome continues to rise, fatty liver disease has become one of the most prevalent ...

Resection of tumors in the caudate lobe (a deep, hard-to-reach part of the liver) is recognized as one of the most ...