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Strain Elastography Ultrasound: An Overview with Emphasis on Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Strain elastography (SE), which estimates tissue strain, is an adjunct to the conventional ultrasound B-mode examination. We present a short introduction to SE and its clinical use. Furthermore, we present an overview of the 10 largest studies performed on the diagnostic accuracy of SE in breast can...

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Autores principales: Carlsen, Jonathan F., Ewertsen, Caroline, Lönn, Lars, Nielsen, Michael B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4665583/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26835671
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics3010117
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description Strain elastography (SE), which estimates tissue strain, is an adjunct to the conventional ultrasound B-mode examination. We present a short introduction to SE and its clinical use. Furthermore, we present an overview of the 10 largest studies performed on the diagnostic accuracy of SE in breast cancer diagnostics. Eight of 10 studies presented data for both SE and B-mode imaging. Seven studies showed better specificity and accuracy for SE than for B-mode imaging in breast cancer diagnosis. Four studies showed an increase in specificity and accuracy when combining B-mode imaging with SE. The ways of combining B-mode imaging with SE in the diagnosis of breast cancer differed between the five studies. We believe that further studies are needed to establish an optimal algorithm for the combination of B-mode ultrasound and SE in breast cancer.
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spelling pubmed-46655832016-01-27 Strain Elastography Ultrasound: An Overview with Emphasis on Breast Cancer Diagnosis Carlsen, Jonathan F. Ewertsen, Caroline Lönn, Lars Nielsen, Michael B. Diagnostics (Basel) Review Strain elastography (SE), which estimates tissue strain, is an adjunct to the conventional ultrasound B-mode examination. We present a short introduction to SE and its clinical use. Furthermore, we present an overview of the 10 largest studies performed on the diagnostic accuracy of SE in breast cancer diagnostics. Eight of 10 studies presented data for both SE and B-mode imaging. Seven studies showed better specificity and accuracy for SE than for B-mode imaging in breast cancer diagnosis. Four studies showed an increase in specificity and accuracy when combining B-mode imaging with SE. The ways of combining B-mode imaging with SE in the diagnosis of breast cancer differed between the five studies. We believe that further studies are needed to establish an optimal algorithm for the combination of B-mode ultrasound and SE in breast cancer. MDPI 2013-02-25 /pmc/articles/PMC4665583/ /pubmed/26835671 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics3010117 Text en © 2013 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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Strain Elastography Ultrasound: An Overview with Emphasis on Breast Cancer Diagnosis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4665583/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26835671
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics3010117
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