| Literature DB >> 25800942 |
Giovanna Ferraioli1, Carlo Filice1, Laurent Castera2, Byung Ihn Choi3, Ioan Sporea4, Stephanie R Wilson5, David Cosgrove6, Christoph F Dietrich7, Dominique Amy8, Jeffrey C Bamber9, Richard Barr10, Yi-Hong Chou11, Hong Ding12, Andre Farrokh13, Mireen Friedrich-Rust14, Timothy J Hall15, Kazutaka Nakashima16, Kathryn R Nightingale17, Mark L Palmeri17, Fritz Schafer18, Tsuyoshi Shiina19, Shinichi Suzuki20, Masatoshi Kudo21.
Abstract
The World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (WFUMB) has produced these guidelines for the use of elastography techniques in liver disease. For each available technique, the reproducibility, results, and limitations are analyzed, and recommendations are given. Finally, recommendations based on the international literature and the findings of the WFUMB expert group are established as answers to common questions. The document has a clinical perspective and is aimed at assessing the usefulness of elastography in the management of liver diseases.Entities:
Keywords: WFUMB; elastography; focal liver lesions; guidelines; liver; liver diseases; liver fibrosis; liver stiffness; shear wave elastography; strain elastography; transient elastography; ultrasound
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Year: 2015 PMID： 25800942 DOI： 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2015.03.007
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Ultrasound Med Biol ISSN： 0301-5629 Impact factor: 2.998