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01-04-2015 | Review Article

JSUM ultrasound elastography practice guidelines: pancreas

Authors: Yoshiki Hirooka, Takamichi Kuwahara, Atsushi Irisawa, Fumihide Itokawa, Hiroki Uchida, Naoki Sasahira, Natsuko Kawada, Yuya Itoh, Tsuyoshi Shiina

Published in: Journal of Medical Ultrasonics | Issue 2/2015

Abstract

Ultrasound elastography is a relatively new diagnostic technique for measuring the elasticity (hardness) of tissue. Eleven years have passed since the debut of elastography. Various elastography devices are currently being marketed by manufacturers under different names. Pancreatic elastography can be used not only with transabdominal ultrasonography but also with endoscopic ultrasonography, but some types of elastography are difficult to perform for the pancreas. These guidelines aim to classify the various types of elastography into two major categories depending on the differences in the physical quantity (strain, shear wave), and to present the evidence for pancreatic elastography and how to use pancreatic elastography in the present day. But the number of reports on ultrasound elastography for the pancreas is still small, and there are no reports on some elastography devices for the pancreas. Therefore, these guidelines do not recommend methods of imaging and analysis by elastography device.

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Title: JSUM ultrasound elastography practice guidelines: pancreas
Authors: Yoshiki Hirooka
Takamichi Kuwahara
Atsushi Irisawa
Fumihide Itokawa
Hiroki Uchida
Naoki Sasahira
Natsuko Kawada
Yuya Itoh
Tsuyoshi Shiina
Publication date: 01-04-2015
Publisher: Springer Japan
Published in: Journal of Medical Ultrasonics / Issue 2/2015
Print ISSN: 1346-4523
Electronic ISSN: 1613-2254
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10396-014-0571-7

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