| AIUM | American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine |
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| CFDU | color-flow Doppler ultrasonography; color flow Doppler ultrasound |
| CUS | carotid ultrasound examination; catheterized urine specimen; contact urticaria syndrome |
| DDU | dermo-distortive urticaria; duplex Doppler ultrasound |
| DTUS | diathermy, traction, and ultrasound |
| ultrasound/ultrasonography | A test in which high-frequency sound waves (ultrasound) are bounced off tissues and the echoes are converted into a picture (sonogram). (12 Dec 1998) |
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| liver metastases: ultrasound imaging | <radiology> Echogenic (25%), colonic carcinoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, treated breast carcinoma mixed echogenicity (37.5%), breast carcinoma, rectal carcinoma, lung carcinoma, stomach carcinoma, anaplastic cancer, cervical carcinoma, carcinoid hypoechoic (37.5%), lymphoma, pancreatic carcinoma, cervical carcinoma, lung carcinoma (adenocarcinoma), nasopharyngeal carcinoma see: liver metastases (12 Dec 1998) |