Chronic and acute pancreatitis elastography – current knowledge
Annales Academiae Medicae Silesiensis, 2023 This paper is a review of available studies concerning the topic of ultrasound elastography as a modality for diagnosing chronic or acute pancreatitis. Twenty-eight articles published between 2004 and 2022 containing keywords related to elastography and ...
Agnieszka M. Sepioł, Maciej M. Cebula
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Ultrasound elastography for thyroid nodules: recent advances [PDF]
Ultrasonography, 2014 Ultrasonography (US)-based elastography has been introduced as a noninvasive technique for evaluating thyroid nodules that encompasses a variety of approaches such as supersonic shear imaging and acoustic radiation force impulse imaging as well as real ...
Jin Young Kwak, Eun-Kyung Kim
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Heliyon, 2023 Purpose: Thyroid nodules classified as indeterminate in previous fine-needle aspiration cytology often necessitate additional evaluation to determine their histology, while shear wave elastography (SWE) offers an alternative option in this regard.
Yuxuan Qiu +4 more
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The Importance of Ultrasonography in the Evaluation of Mammary Tumors in Bitches
Animals, 2023 The high incidence of mammary tumors in small animals is concerning. Patient history, clinical examination, physical evaluation, and imaging studies are important for clinical staging.
Marcus Antônio Rossi Feliciano +6 more
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2D-shear wave elastography: number of acquisitions can be reduced according to clinical setting
Insights into Imaging, 2021 Background The factors affecting intra-operator variability of two-dimensional shear wave elastography (2D-SWE) have not been clearly established. We evaluated 2D-SWE variability according to the number of measurements, clinical and laboratory features ...
Marco Dioguardi Burgio +6 more
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Practice guideline for the performance of breast ultrasound elastography [PDF]
Ultrasonography, 2014 <p>Ultrasound (US) elastography is a valuable imaging technique for tissue characterization. Two main types of elastography, strain and shear-wave, are commonly used to image breast tissue.
Su Hyun Lee +18 more
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Two-dimensional shear wave elastography for assessing liver fibrosis in patients with chronic liver disease: a prospective cohort study [PDF]
The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine, 2022 Background/Aims The objective of this study was to determine whether the newly developed two-dimensional shear wave elastography (2D-SWE, RS85, Samsung-shearwave imaging) was more valid and reliable than transient elastography (TE) for predicting the ...
Hae Won Yoo +6 more
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Preclinical evaluation of acoustic radiation force impulse measurements in regions of heterogeneous elasticity [PDF]
Ultrasonography, 2016 Purpose The purpose of this study was to compare the reliability of ultrasound-based shear wave elastography in regions of homogeneous versus heterogeneous elasticity by using two different probes.
Katharina Hollerieth +6 more
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Quantitative Ultrasound Techniques Used for Peripheral Nerve Assessment [PDF]
, 2023 Aim: This review article describes quantitative ultrasound (QUS) techniques and summarizes their strengths and limitations when applied to peripheral nerves. Methods: A systematic review was conducted on publications after 1990 in Google Scholar, Scopus,
Barrère, Victor +10 more
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COMBINED NS5A & NS5B NUCLEOTIDE INHIBITOR THERAPY FOR PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC HEPATITIS C WITH STAGE 5 CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE ON HEMODIALYSIS [PDF]
Arquivos de Gastroenterologia, 2020 BACKGROUND: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is the most common hepatotropic viral infection affecting the patients on maintenance hemodialysis. Treatment of chronic HCV infection in stage 4 and 5 CKD includes a combination of elbasvir/grazoprevir and ...
Prasanta DEBNATH +5 more
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