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Enhanced imaging in EUS

Colour doppler mode

Delineate vascularity of the lesion

Detect intervening vessel along the path of needle biopsy

Elastography

Help differentiate soft and hard tissue which aids

tissue sampling

Contrast-enhanced EUS (CE-EUS)

Sonovue

A USG contrast agent

Contains stabilised sulphur hexafluoride microbubbles sur-
rounded by a phospholipid shell with a mean size of 2.5

μm

Useful for detection of neuroendocrine or vascular

pancreatic lesions

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