Erschienen in:
01.10.2010 | Oral presentation
Ultrasound elastography as an adjuvant to conventional ultrasound in the preoperative assessment of axillary lymph nodes in suspected breast cancer: a pilot study
verfasst von:
K Taylor, S O’Keeffe, GM Treece, R Sinnatamby, PD Britton, MG Wallis
Erschienen in:
Breast Cancer Research
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Sonderheft 3/2010
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Excerpt
NICE guidelines recommend conventional ultrasound (CU) of the axilla as preliminary staging in patients with breast cancer. However, up to one-third of nodes showing normal morphology are metastatic on surgical histology [
1]. Ultrasound elastography (UE) uses received radiofrequency data to produce an elastogram depicting tissue stiffness. UE has been researched in the breast but there are no published data regarding UE of the axilla. …