Journal
JOURNAL OF ULTRASOUND
Volume 17, Issue 4, Pages 321-330Publisher
SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG
DOI: 10.1007/s40477-014-0124-3
Keywords
Colon; Ultrasonography; Real time elastography; Gastrointestinal elastography
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Real-time strain elastography is not routinely performed in clinical practice for characterizing gastrointestinal tract diseases, and there are fewstudies in the literature on the subject. The recent EFSUMBguidelines suggest the use of this method in the diagnosis of neoplastic lesions and in the characterization of bowel strictures in patients with Crohn's disease. The purpose of this pictorial essay is to evaluate the feasibility of strain elastography in some pathologies of the colon frequently encountered in daily clinical practice and to compare elastography imageswith corresponding endoscopic and radiographic images. In our opinion, strain elastography is useful for characterizing diseases of the colon as it can add valuable diagnostic information to grayscale ultrasound imaging. However, diagnostic accuracy and clinical relevance of this information should be confirmed by further prospective research-targeted studies.
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