Elastography as a new diagnostic tool to detect breast cancer 
– evaluation of research and clinical applications

Paweł Rzymski; Tomasz Opala

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5/2011 vol. 10

Original paper

Elastography as a new diagnostic tool to detect breast cancer – evaluation of research and clinical applications

Paweł Rzymski

,

Tomasz Opala

Przegląd Menopauzalny 2011; 5: 357–362

Online publish date: 2011/11/05

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AMA

Rzymski P, Opala T. Elastography as a new diagnostic tool to detect breast cancer – evaluation of research and clinical applications. Menopause Review/Przegląd Menopauzalny. 2011;10(5):357-362.

APA

Rzymski, P., & Opala, T. (2011). Elastography as a new diagnostic tool to detect breast cancer – evaluation of research and clinical applications. Menopause Review/Przegląd Menopauzalny, 10(5), 357-362.

Chicago

Rzymski, Paweł, and Tomasz Opala. 2011. "Elastography as a new diagnostic tool to detect breast cancer – evaluation of research and clinical applications". Menopause Review/Przegląd Menopauzalny 10 (5): 357-362.

Harvard

Rzymski, P., and Opala, T. (2011). Elastography as a new diagnostic tool to detect breast cancer – evaluation of research and clinical applications. Menopause Review/Przegląd Menopauzalny, 10(5), pp.357-362.

MLA

Rzymski, Paweł et al. "Elastography as a new diagnostic tool to detect breast cancer – evaluation of research and clinical applications." Menopause Review/Przegląd Menopauzalny, vol. 10, no. 5, 2011, pp. 357-362.

Vancouver

Rzymski P, Opala T. Elastography as a new diagnostic tool to detect breast cancer – evaluation of research and clinical applications. Menopause Review/Przegląd Menopauzalny. 2011;10(5):357-362.

Mammography and ultrasonography are currently the most sensitive methods for detecting breast cancer, but elastography is a new diagnostic tool. Stiffness of invasive carcinomas were found to be 5-25 times larger than that of normal adipose tissue. There are basically two types of elastography examination used in initial clinical research: conventional elastography with compression and shear wave elastography. Analysis of 20 studies in the years 1997-2010 with 1484 malignant and 2822 benign breast lesions is presented in this paper. The overall sensitivity was 67-100% with specificity of 62-99% for elastography. This raises the hope of introducing this method in the BI-RADS classification and modifying diagnostics in category 3-4.