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SUBMITTER: Giannetti A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4209217 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Giannetti Andrea A Biscontri Marco M Matergi Marco M
Journal of ultrasound 20140802 4
Real-time strain elastography is not routinely performed in clinical practice for characterizing gastrointestinal tract diseases, and there are few studies in the literature on the subject. The recent EFSUMB guidelines 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 freque ...[more]