An overview of elastography-an emerging branch of medical imaging

A Sarvazyan, TJ Hall, MW Urban… - Current Medical …, 2011 - ingentaconnect.com
From times immemorial manual palpation served as a source of information on the state of
soft tissues and allowed detection of various diseases accompanied by changes in tissue …

Breast elastography: a literature review

A Goddi, M Bonardi, S Alessi - Journal of ultrasound, 2012 - Elsevier
Breast elastography is a new sonographic imaging technique which provides information on
breast lesions in addition to conventional ultrasonography (US) and mammography …

Accuracy of quantitative ultrasound elastography for differentiation of malignant and benign breast abnormalities: a meta-analysis

G Sadigh, RC Carlos, CH Neal… - Breast cancer research and …, 2012 - Springer
The purpose of this study was to systematically review recent literature on diagnostic
performance of strain ratio and length ratio, two different strain measurements in ultrasound …

[HTML][HTML] Use of shear wave elastography to differentiate benign and malignant breast lesions

DÇ Olgun, B Korkmazer, F Kılıç, AS Dikici… - Diagnostic and …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
PURPOSE We aimed to determine the correlations between the elasticity values of solid
breast masses and histopathological findings to define cutoff elasticity values differentiating …

The journey of elastography: background, current status, and future possibilities in breast cancer diagnosis

T Faruk, MK Islam, S Arefin, MZ Haq - Clinical breast cancer, 2015 - Elsevier
Elastography is a promising way to assess tissue differences regarding stiffness or elasticity
for what was historically assessed manually by palpation. Combined with conventional …

A systematic review of elastography, electrical impedance scanning, and digital infrared thermography for breast cancer screening and diagnosis

TD Vreugdenburg, CD Willis, L Mundy… - Breast cancer research …, 2013 - Springer
The objective of this study aimed to systematically identify and evaluate all the available
evidence of safety, effectiveness and diagnostic accuracy for three emerging classes of …

Ultrasonographic differentiation of malignant from benign breast lesions: a meta-analytic comparison of elasticity and BIRADS scoring

G Sadigh, RC Carlos, CH Neal… - Breast cancer research and …, 2012 - Springer
There has been controversy regarding the accuracy of breast ultrasound elastography
(USE) compared to conventional B-mode Ultrasound (USB). The purpose of this study was …

Clinical application of breast elastography: state of the art

P Ricci, E Maggini, E Mancuso, P Lodise… - European journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Breast elastography is a new sonographic imaging technique for the characterization of
focal breast lesions in addition to conventional ultrasonography (US) and mammography …

[HTML][HTML] Elastography in predicting preterm delivery in asymptomatic, low-risk women: a prospective observational study

S Wozniak, P Czuczwar, P Szkodziak, P Milart… - BMC pregnancy and …, 2014 - Springer
Background Despite the efforts to decrease the rate of preterm birth, preterm delivery is still
the main cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality. Identifying patients threatened with …

Diagnosis of solid breast lesions by elastography 5-point score and strain ratio method

QL Zhao, LT Ruan, H Zhang, YM Yin… - European Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: To compare the diagnostic performance of 5-point scoring system and strain
ratio by sonoelastography in the assessment of solid breast lesions. MATERIAL AND …