[Elastography as an additional tool in breast sonography : Technical principles and clinical applications.]

[Elastography as an additional tool in breast sonography : Technical principles and clinical applications.]
Radiologe. 2014 Feb 27;
Authors: Rjosk-Dendorfer D, Reichelt A, Clevert DA
Abstract
In recent years the use of elastography in addition to sonography has become a routine clinical tool for the characterization of breast masses. Whereas free hand compression elastography results in qualitative imaging of tissue stiffness due to induced compression, shear wave elastography displays quantitative information of tissue displacement. Recent studies have investigated the use of elastography in addition to sonography and improvement of specificity in differentiating benign from malignant breast masses could be shown. Therefore, additional use of elastography could help to reduce the number of unnecessary biopsies in benign breast lesions especially in category IV lesions of the ultrasound breast imaging reporting data system (US-BI-RADS).
PMID: 24570107 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Der Radiologe - February 27, 2014 Category: Radiology Authors: Rjosk-Dendorfer D, Reichelt A, Clevert DA Tags: Radiologe Source Type: research