“How to perform contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS)” provides general advice on the use
of ultrasound contrast agents (UCAs) for clinical decision-making and reviews technical …

Tissue stiffness assessed by palpation for diagnosing pathology has been used for
thousands of years. Ultrasound elastography has been developed more recently to display …

The normal thyroid gland lies in the anterior neck, superficial to the trachea, deep to the
strap muscles, and medial to the carotid arteries and jugular veins. The superficial location …

Autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITDs) include a wide spectrum of thyroid diseases affecting
more commonly women than men. The most frequent forms are Graves' Disease (GD) and …

Objective The purpose of this study was to improve the differentiation between malignant
and benign thyroid nodules using deep learning (DL) in category 4 and 5 based on the …

Background and objectives: Thyroid nodules are a common disorder of the endocrine
system. Segmentation of thyroid nodules on ultrasound images is an important step in the …

The recently published guidelines of the European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in
Medicine and Biology (EFSUMB) on interventional ultrasound (INVUS)-guided procedures …

We recently introduced a series of papers describing how to do certain techniques. This
article is the first part of a review of shear wave elastography (SWE). It reports the principles …

Bisphenol A (BPA) is a widespread thyroid disruptor, but evidence about an association with
thyroid cancer is weak. Excess body weight is a risk factor for thyroid cancer and affects …

Strain elastography as used in EUS (EUS-real-time tissue elastography [RTE]) is a
qualitative technique and provides information on the relative stiffness between one tissue …