TY - JOUR JO - Menopause Review/Przegląd Menopauzalny SN - 1643-8876 VL - 10 IS - 5 PY - 2011 ID - Rzymski2011 TI - Elastography as a new diagnostic tool to detect breast cancer – evaluation of research and clinical applications AB - 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. AU - Rzymski, Paweł AU - Opala, Tomasz SP - 357 EP - 362 DA - 2011 UR - https://www.termedia.pl/Elastography-as-a-new-diagnostic-tool-to-detect-breast-cancer-r-n-evaluation-of-research-and-clinical-applications,4,17580,1,1.html ER -