Utility of Shear Wave Elastography for Diagnosing Chronic Autoimmune Thyroiditis

The aims of this study were to evaluate the utility of shear wave elastography (SWE) using acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) for diagnosing chronic autoimmune thyroiditis (CAT) and to verify the effect of fibrotic thyroid tissue on shear wave velocity (SWV). The subjects were 229 patients with...

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Autores principales: Fukuhara, Takahiro, Matsuda, Eriko, Izawa, Shoichiro, Fujiwara, Kazunori, Kitano, Hiroya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4519543/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26257979
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/164548

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