Cancer focal hepatic lesions
Real-Time Ultrsound Elastography Module Ultrasound elastography has recently been developed for clinical applications, allowing real-time analysis of dynamic tissue behavior. The method reveals physical properties of internal structures, characterizing hardness differences between diseased and normal tissue.
The elasticity of tissue is reconstructed within region of interest and translated into a color signal that overlies the grey scale image. Last hour applications of real-time elastography available in Research Center of Gastroenterology and Hepatology of Craiova are: assessing the stage of fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatic diseases characterization of focal liver lesions diagnose and characterization of focal lesions of the breast Also, by endoscopic approach, real-time elastography can be used to obtain information regarding the stiffness of several deep structures.
This can allow: An accurate differential diagnosis between pancreatic cancer and pseudotumoral chronic pancreatitis Differential diagnosis between malignant and benign origin of abdominal and mediastinal lymph nodes.