Range of sonography services


Our Clinical Department focuses on the treatment of gastrointestinal diseases. Sonography, also known colloquially as ultrasound, is an imaging procedure that uses sound waves to provide information about internal organs, tissue and vessels. The examination is painless and is an essential procedure in differential diagnostics.

Diagnostics

  • Native and color Doppler ultrasonography of liver, gallbladder, bile ducts, spleen, kidneys, adrenal glands, pancreas, small and large intestine, mesentery, retroperitoneum, pelvis, urinary bladder, abdominal vessels, lymph nodes, groin, neck, thyroid gland, neck vessels.
  • Rectal endosonography, special perianal sonography
  • Contrast sonography (also using high frequency) of liver, gallbladder, bile ducts, kidneys, adrenal glands, spleen, pancreas, lymph nodes, intestines, soft tissue
  • Ultrasound-guided puncture (also under contrast medium) of liver, bile ducts, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, soft tissue, unclear abdominal masses
  • Quantitative procedures: Duplex sonography (quantitative blood flow measurements), tissue elastography (measurement of the stiffness of the liver, spleen, pancreas, tumors), quantitative contrast sonography
  • Special ultrasound procedures (focused elastography, 3D, 4D measurement procedures, etc.)

Therapeutic procedures

  • Treatment of pathological fluid accumulations (e.g. abscess, ascites, pleural effusion): Puncture, drainage, irrigation, antibiotic instillation
  • Treatment of liver, kidney and spleen cysts: sclerotherapy, puncture, irrigation
  • Tumor therapy: radiofrequency ablation (RFA), microwave ablation (MWA)

Special expertise

  • Liver tumors: Hepatocellular carcinoma [HCC], cholangiocarcinoma [CCA], hepatocellular adenomas [HCA], focal nodular hyperplasia [FNH], metastases, cystic liver
  • Liver transplantation
  • Vascular liver diseases: Budd Chiari syndrome, Osler's disease, portal vein thrombosis
  • Diseases of the gallbladder and bile ducts: Gallbladder polyps, primary sclerosing cholangitis [PSC]
  • Pancreatic tumors
  • M. Crohn's disease

Sonography