Open AccessRole of shear wave elastography in the evaluation of the treatment and prognosis of supraspinatus tendinitis
Author(s) -
Jie Zhou,
De-Bin Yang,
Jing Wang,
Huizhang Li,
Yingchun Wang
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
world journal of clinical cases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.368
H-Index - 10
ISSN - 2307-8960
DOI - 10.12998/wjcc.v8.i14.2977
Subject(s) - medicine , visual analogue scale , tendinitis , elastography , surgery , ultrasound , physical therapy , tendon , radiology
Supraspinatus tendinitis recurs easily after treatment. One of the main reasons is the lack of objective tools for the efficacy evaluation. Shear wave elastography (SWE) can quantitatively analyze the tissue elasticity of region of interest by measuring the Young's modulus (YM) value.