WFUMB Guidelines and Recommendations on the Clinical Use of Ultrasound Elastography: Part 5. Prostate.

WFUMB Guidelines and Recommendations on the Clinical Use of Ultrasound Elastography: Part 5. Prostate.

Barr Richard G; Cosgrove David; Brock Marko; Cantisani Vito; Correas Jean Michel; Postema Arnoud W; Salomon Georg; Tsutsumi Masakazu; Xu Hui-Xiong; Dietrich Christoph F

Ultrasound in medicine & biology

2017

2017-01

The World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (WFUMB) has produced guidelines for the use of elastography techniques, including basic science, breast, liver and thyroid elastography. Here we present elastography in prostate diseases. For each available technique, procedure, reproducibility, results and limitations are analyzed and recommendations are given. Finally, recommendations are given based on the level of evidence of the published literature and on the WFUMB expert group's consensus. This document has a clinical perspective and is aimed at assessing the usefulness of elastography in the management of prostate diseases.

*Elastography; *Guidelines; *Practice Guidelines as Topic; *Prostate cancer; *Shear wave elastography; *Strain elastography; *Transient elastography; *World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology; Clinical Assessment Tools; Elasticity Imaging Techniques/*methods/*standards; Humans; International Relations; Internationality; Male; Medical; Medical Organizations; Practice Guidelines; Prostate; Prostate/*diagnostic imaging; Prostatic Neoplasms; Prostatic Neoplasms/*diagnostic imaging; Reproducibility of Results; Scales; Societies; Ultrasonography – Methods; Ultrasonography – Standards

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