Breast mass characterization using shear wave elastography and ultrasound

Cardiac Shear Wave Elastography Using a Clinical Ultrasound System.

The propagation velocity of shear waves relates to tissue stiffness. We prove that a regular clinical cardiac ultrasound system can determine shear wave velocity with a conventional unmodified tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) application. The investigation was performed on five tissue phantoms with different stiffness using a research platform capable of inducing and tracking shear waves and a clin...

Breast Lesions: Quantitative Diagnosis Using Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography-A Systematic Review and Meta--Analysis.

The aim of this meta-analysis was to estimate the diagnostic performance of shear wave elastography (SWE) in differentiating malignant from benign breast lesions. A literature search of PubMed, Web of Science and Scopus up to November 2014 was conducted. A summary receiver operating characteristic curve was constructed, and pooled weighted estimates of sensitivity and specificity were calculate...

Male Breast Abscess Mimicking Malignancy: Clinical, Mammographic, Ultrasound, and Shear-Wave Elastography Findings

A variety of same pathologic conditions in the female breast, from benign to malignancy, have been reported for the male breast. In a symptomatic male patient with a palpable abnormality, gynecomastia and skin lesions account for the majority of pathologic conditions [1-3]. Breast abscess is also possible benign condition in men, but it is extremely rare [1-3]. Male breast abscess may have unfa...

Comparison of Shear-Wave and Strain Ultrasound Elastography for Evaluating Fat Induration after Breast Reconstruction

I n autologous breast reconstruction after mastec-tomy, fat induration is a rather common complication that causes deep tissue infection, pain, and contracture deformity. Follow-up for fat induration provides important clues after breast reconstruction with an autologous flap because fat induration is the clinical stage before fat necrosis that may lead to the need for corrective surgery. Our u...

The emergence of shear wave elastography in ultrasound