How many measurements are needed for liver stiffness assessment by 2D-Shear Wave Elastography (2D-SWE) and which value should be used: The mean or median?

Medical Ultrasonography

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 268-272

  Sporea, Ioan ^a   Grǎdinaru Taşcǎu, Oana ^a   Bota, Simona ^a   Popescu, Alina ^a   Şirli, Roxana ^a   Jurchiş, Ana ^a   Popescu, Mǎdǎlina ^a   Dǎnilǎ, Mirela ^a  

^a VICTOR BABES UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Liver stiffness; Shear wave elastography; Transient elastography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATOBILIARY PARAMETERS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER EXAMINATION; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER STIFFNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN VALUE; MEDIAN VALUE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TWO DIMENSIONAL SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEAR STRENGTH; STRESS, MECHANICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84888786664     PISSN: 18444172     EISSN: 20668643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11152/mu.2013.2066.154.isp2     Document Type: Article

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