WFUMB Guidelines and Recommendations on the Clinical Use of Ultrasound Elastography: Part 4. Thyroid.

WFUMB Guidelines and Recommendations on the Clinical Use of Ultrasound Elastography: Part 4. Thyroid.

Cosgrove David; Barr Richard; Bojunga Joerg; Cantisani Vito; Chammas Maria Cristina; Dighe Manjiri; Vinayak Sudhir; Xu Jun-Mei; 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 and liver. Here we present elastography in thyroid 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. The document has a clinical perspective and is aimed at assessing the usefulness of elastography in the management of thyroid diseases.

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

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