Katarzyna Dobruch-Sobczak, Zbigniew Adamczewski, Marek Dedecjus, Andrzej Lewiński, Bartosz Migda, Marek Ruchała, Anna Skowrońska-Szcześniak, Ewelina Szczepanek-Parulska, Klaudia Zajkowska, Agnieszka Żyłka
Thyroid cancer is a tumour with a steadily increasing incidence. It accounts for 7% to 15% of focal lesions detected by ultrasound, depending on age, gender and other factors affecting its occurrence. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy is an essential method to establish the diagnosis but, in view of its limitations, sonoelastography is seen as a non-invasive technique useful in differentiating the nature of lesions and monitoring them after fine-needle aspiration biopsy. This paper presents a literature review on the role of both sonoelastographic techniques (relative strain sonoelastography, shear wave sonoelastography) to assess the deformability of focal thyroid lesions...
April 2022: Journal of Ultrasonography