WFUMB guidelines and recommendations for clinical use of ultrasound elastography: Part 3: liver.

WFUMB guidelines and recommendations for clinical use of ultrasound elastography: Part 3: liver.

Ferraioli Giovanna; Filice Carlo; Castera Laurent; Choi Byung Ihn; Sporea Ioan; Wilson Stephanie R; Cosgrove David; Dietrich Christoph F; Amy Dominique; Bamber Jeffrey C; Barr Richard; Chou Yi-Hong; Ding Hong; Farrokh Andre; Friedrich-Rust Mireen; Hall Timothy J; Nakashima Kazutaka; Nightingale Kathryn R; Palmeri Mark L; Schafer Fritz; Shiina Tsuyoshi; Suzuki Shinichi; Kudo Masatoshi

Ultrasound in medicine & biology

2015

2015-05

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.

*Practice Guidelines as Topic; Elastic Modulus; Elasticity Imaging Techniques/*standards; elastography; focal liver lesions; guidelines; Internationality; liver; Liver Cirrhosis/*diagnostic imaging/*physiopathology; liver diseases; liver fibrosis; liver stiffness; Liver/*diagnostic imaging/*physiopathology; Mechanical; Shear Strength; shear wave elastography; strain elastography; Stress; transient elastography; ultrasound; WFUMB

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