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Downloaded from http://journals.lww.com/ultrasound-quarterly by BhDMf5ePHKbH4TTImqenVA5KvPVPZ0P5BEgU+IUTEfzO/GUWifn2IfwcEVVH9SSn on 06/04/2020 TECHNICAL ARTICLE Breast Elastography How We Do It Christina A. Gkali, MD,* Athanasios N. Chalazonitis, MD, PHD, MPH,* Eleni Feida, MD,* Maria Sotiropoulou, MD, PHD,† Aris Giannos, MD,‡ Alexandra Tsigginou, MD,‡ and Constantine Dimitrakakis, MD, PhD§ diagnosis with palpation. In ancient Greece, Hippocrates gave Abstract: In recent years, the use of elastography in addition to so- instructions on many forms of diagnosis using palpation, in- nography has become a routine clinical tool for the characterization cluding palpation of the breasts, wounds, bowels, ulcers, of breast masses. Studies have investigated the improvement of spec- uterus, skin, and tumors. In the modern western world, palpa- ificity in differentiating benign from malignant breast masses. There- tion became considered a respectable method of diagnosis in fore, additional use of elastography could help reduce the number the 1930s. Since then, the practice of palpation has become of unnecessary biopsies in benign breast lesions especially in cate- widespread, and it is considered an effective method of detect- gory IV lesions of the ultrasound breast imaging reporting data sys- ing tumors and other pathologies. Palpation has long been used tem. Ultrasound elastography is a cheap, readily available, useful, to
Ultrasound quarterly – Wolters Kluwer Health
Published: Dec 1, 2015
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