Strain Elastography Ultrasound: An Overview with Emphasis on Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Jonathan F. Carlsen; Caroline Ewertsen; Lars Lönn; Michael Bachmann Nielsen

doi:10.3390/diagnostics3010117

Strain Elastography Ultrasound: An Overview with Emphasis on Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Jonathan F. Carlsen, Caroline Ewertsen, Lars Lönn, Michael Bachmann Nielsen

Department of Clinical Medicine

Abstract

Strain elastography (SE), which estimates tissue strain, is an adjunct to the conventional ultrasound B-mode examination. We present a short introduction to SE and its clinical use. Furthermore, we present an overview of the 10 largest studies performed on the diagnostic accuracy of SE in breast cancer diagnostics. Eight of 10 studies presented data for both SE and B-mode imaging. Seven studies showed better specificity and accuracy for SE than for B-mode imaging in breast cancer diagnosis. Four studies showed an increase in specificity and accuracy when combining B-mode imaging with SE. The ways of combining B-mode imaging with SE in the diagnosis of breast cancer differed between the five studies. We believe that further studies are needed to establish an optimal algorithm for the combination of B-mode ultrasound and SE in breast cancer.

Original language	English
Journal	Diagnostics
Volume	3
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	117-125
Number of pages	9
ISSN	2075-4418
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics3010117
Publication status	Published - Mar 2013

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