Open AccessEndoscopic ultrasound: Elastographic lymph node evaluation
Author(s) -
Christoph F. Dietrich,
Christian Jenssen,
Paolo Giorgio Arcidiacono,
XinWu Cui,
Marc Giovannini,
Michael Hocke,
Júlio Iglesias-García,
Adrian Săftoiu,
Siyu Sun,
Liliana Chiorean
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
endoscopic ultrasound
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.883
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 2303-9027
pISSN - 2226-7190
DOI - 10.4103/2303-9027.162995
Subject(s) - palpation , elastography , medicine , radiology , ultrasonography , lymph node , medical physics , ultrasound elastography , ultrasound , pathology
Different imaging techniques can bring different information which will contribute to the final diagnosis and further management of the patients. Even from the time of Hippocrates, palpation has been used in order to detect and characterize a body mass. The so-called virtual palpation has now become a reality due to elastography, which is a recently developed technique. Elastography has already been proving its added value as a complementary imaging method, helpful to better characterize and differentiate between benign and malignant masses. The current applications of elastography in lymph nodes (LNs) assessment by endoscopic ultrasonography will be further discussed in this paper, with a review of the literature and future perspectives.