Open AccessElastography for Predicting and Localizing Nodal Metastases during Endobronchial Ultrasound
Author(s) -
Takahiro Nakajima,
Terunaga Inage,
Yuuki Sata,
Junichi Morimoto,
Tetsuzo Tagawa,
Hidemi Suzuki,
Takekazu Iwata,
Shigetoshi Yoshida,
Yukio Nakatani,
Ichiro Yoshino
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
respiration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.264
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1423-0356
pISSN - 0025-7931
DOI - 10.1159/000441798
Subject(s) - medicine , elastography , lymph , radiology , lymph node , ultrasound , lung cancer , pathology
Elastography is a relatively new technology that can generate images reflective of tissue stiffness (elasticity). Neoplastic tissue is usually stiffer than normal structures.
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