Luca Maria Sconfienza, Domenico Albano, Georgina Allen, Alberto Bazzocchi, Bianca Bignotti, Vito Chianca, Fernando Facal de Castro, Elena E Drakonaki, Elena Gallardo, Jan Gielen, Andrea Sabine Klauser, Carlo Martinoli, Giovanni Mauri, Eugene McNally, Carmelo Messina, Rebeca Mirón Mombiela, Davide Orlandi, Athena Plagou, Magdalena Posadzy, Rosa de la Puente, Monique Reijnierse, Federica Rossi, Saulius Rutkauskas, Ziga Snoj, Jelena Vucetic, David Wilson, Alberto Stefano Tagliafico
OBJECTIVES: To update the 2012 European Society of Musculoskeletal Radiology (ESSR) clinical consensus guidelines for musculoskeletal ultrasound referral in Europe. METHODS: Twenty-one musculoskeletal imaging experts from the ESSR participated in a consensus study based on a Delphic process. Two independent (non-voting) authors facilitated the procedure and resolved doubtful issues. Updated musculoskeletal ultrasound literature up to July 2017 was scored for shoulder, elbow, wrist/hand, hip, knee, and ankle/foot...
December 2018: European Radiology