WFUMB Guidelines and Recommendations on the Clinical Use of Ultrasound Elastography: Part 4. Thyroid. 2017

David Cosgrove, and Richard Barr, and Joerg Bojunga, and Vito Cantisani, and Maria Cristina Chammas, and Manjiri Dighe, and Sudhir Vinayak, and Jun-Mei Xu, and Christoph F Dietrich
Division of Radiology, Imperial and Kings Colleges, London, UK.

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.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D012955 Societies, Medical Societies whose membership is limited to physicians. Medical Societies,Medical Society,Society, Medical
D013959 Thyroid Diseases Pathological processes involving the THYROID GLAND. Disease, Thyroid,Diseases, Thyroid,Thyroid Disease
D013961 Thyroid Gland A highly vascularized endocrine gland consisting of two lobes joined by a thin band of tissue with one lobe on each side of the TRACHEA. It secretes THYROID HORMONES from the follicular cells and CALCITONIN from the parafollicular cells thereby regulating METABOLISM and CALCIUM level in blood, respectively. Thyroid,Gland, Thyroid,Glands, Thyroid,Thyroid Glands,Thyroids
D015203 Reproducibility of Results The statistical reproducibility of measurements (often in a clinical context), including the testing of instrumentation or techniques to obtain reproducible results. The concept includes reproducibility of physiological measurements, which may be used to develop rules to assess probability or prognosis, or response to a stimulus; reproducibility of occurrence of a condition; and reproducibility of experimental results. Reliability and Validity,Reliability of Result,Reproducibility Of Result,Reproducibility of Finding,Validity of Result,Validity of Results,Face Validity,Reliability (Epidemiology),Reliability of Results,Reproducibility of Findings,Test-Retest Reliability,Validity (Epidemiology),Finding Reproducibilities,Finding Reproducibility,Of Result, Reproducibility,Of Results, Reproducibility,Reliabilities, Test-Retest,Reliability, Test-Retest,Result Reliabilities,Result Reliability,Result Validities,Result Validity,Result, Reproducibility Of,Results, Reproducibility Of,Test Retest Reliability,Validity and Reliability,Validity, Face
D017410 Practice Guidelines as Topic Works about directions or principles presenting current or future rules of policy for assisting health care practitioners in patient care decisions regarding diagnosis, therapy, or related clinical circumstances. The guidelines may be developed by government agencies at any level, institutions, professional societies, governing boards, or by the convening of expert panels. The guidelines form a basis for the evaluation of all aspects of health care and delivery. Clinical Guidelines as Topic,Best Practices,Best Practice
D054459 Elasticity Imaging Techniques Non-invasive imaging methods based on the mechanical response of an object to a vibrational or impulsive force. It is used for determining the viscoelastic properties of tissue, and thereby differentiating soft from hard inclusions in tissue such as microcalcifications, and some cancer lesions. Most techniques use ultrasound to create the images - eliciting the response with an ultrasonic radiation force and/or recording displacements of the tissue by Doppler ultrasonography. ARFI Imaging,Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse Imaging,Elastograms,Elastography,Magnetic Resonance Elastography,Sonoelastography,Tissue Elasticity Imaging,Vibro-Acoustography,ARFI Imagings,Elasticity Imaging Technique,Elasticity Imaging, Tissue,Elasticity Imagings, Tissue,Elastogram,Elastographies,Elastographies, Magnetic Resonance,Elastography, Magnetic Resonance,Imaging Technique, Elasticity,Imaging Techniques, Elasticity,Imaging, ARFI,Imaging, Tissue Elasticity,Imagings, ARFI,Imagings, Tissue Elasticity,Magnetic Resonance Elastographies,Resonance Elastographies, Magnetic,Resonance Elastography, Magnetic,Sonoelastographies,Technique, Elasticity Imaging,Techniques, Elasticity Imaging,Tissue Elasticity Imagings,Vibro Acoustography,Vibro-Acoustographies
D038622 Internationality The quality or state of relating to or affecting two or more nations. (After Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, 10th ed) Globalization,International Aspects,International Perspectives,International Relations,Multinational Aspects,Multinational Perspectives,Aspect, International,Aspect, Multinational,Aspects, International,Aspects, Multinational,International Aspect,International Perspective,Multinational Aspect,Multinational Perspective,Perspective, International,Perspective, Multinational,Perspectives, International,Perspectives, Multinational,Relations, International

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