Abstract The World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (WFUMB) has
produced guidelines for the use of elastography techniques including basic science, breast …

Physicians have used palpation as a diagnostic examination to understand the elastic
properties of pathology for a long time since they realized that tissue stiffness is closely …

Thyroid elastography has become, lately, one of the main focuses in thyroid imaging. With
more than one hundred papers published on this subject, the core of accumulated …

Accurate differentiation of focal thyroid nodules (FTL) and thyroid abnormalities is pivotal for
proper diagnostic and therapeutic work-up. In these two part articles, the role of ultrasound …

Thyroid nodules are extremely common and the vast majority are non-malignant; therefore
the accurate discrimination of a benign lesion from malignancy is challenging. Ultrasound …

OBJECTIVE. The purposes of this study were to investigate the optimal subset for texture
analysis by use of a histogram and cooccurrence matrix in the differential diagnosis of …

Purpose Thyroid diseases are common yet serious in children that lead to many metabolic
and growth disorders; the most common among these are diffuse thyroid diseases (DTD) …

Objective: Shear wave elastography (SWE) is a user-independent ultrasonographic
technique that evaluates tissue elasticity. It is used especially in the evaluation of thyroiditis …

As a common hyperglycemic disease, type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is a complicated
disorder that requires a lifelong insulin supply due to the immune-mediated destruction of …

Objectives. The aim of the study was to compare elastographic means in parathyroid
adenomas, using shear wave elastography and strain elastography. Methods. This …