EFSUMB Guidelines and Recommendations on the Clinical Use of Liver Ultrasound Elastography, Update 2017 (Long Version)
Caritas-Krankenhaus Bad Mergentheim · First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University · +29 more institutions
Abstract
We present here the first update of the 2013 EFSUMB (European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology) Guidelines and Recommendations on the clinical use of elastography, focused on the assessment of diffuse liver disease. The first part (long version) of these Guidelines and Recommendations deals with the basic principles of elastography and provides an update of how the technology has changed. The practical advantages and disadvantages associated with each of the techniques are described, and guidance is provided regarding optimization of scanning technique, image display, image interpretation, reporting of data and some of the known image artefacts. The second part provides clinical…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 65.85
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 274
Authors
20- CGChristoph G. DietrichCorresponding
Caritas-Krankenhaus Bad Mergentheim, First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University
- JCJeffrey C. Bamber
Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Institute of Cancer Research
- ABAnnalisa Berzigotti
University of Bern, University Hospital of Bern
- SBSimona Bota
Klinikum Klagenfurt
- VCVito Cantisani
Policlinico Umberto I
Topics & keywords
- Medical physics
- Elastography
- Ultrasound
- Medicine
- Ultrasonography
- Transient elastography
- Radiology
- Liver biopsy