The basics of ultrasound elastography for diagnosis, assessment, and staging breast cancer-related lymphedema : a systematic review of the literature

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Breast cancer-related lymphedema (BCRL) incidence has been increasing overtime. Currently, there is not a preferred imaging tool for diagnosis, staging, and assessment of the disease. We aim to review the use of ultrasound elastography (UE) in BCRL patients. A systematic review was performed by querying PubMed, EMBASE, Ovid Healthstar, and Ovid Medline databases for studies that evaluated the use of UE in BCRL. The keywords "elastography" AND "lymphedema" in titles and abstracts were used for the search. The search retrieved 12, 12, 5 and 6 articles in each database, respectively. From these, only 4 met the inclusion criteria. UE methods included two-dimensional strain imaging, shear wave elastography (SWE), and global UE. Two of the studies evaluated the use of UE in the assessment of BCRL, while only 1 considered its use for diagnosis and staging. Based on our systematic review, UE appears to be a great tool in the assessment of BCRL to differentiate affected from non-affected arms.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:9

Enthalten in:

Gland surgery - 9(2020), 2 vom: 12. Apr., Seite 589-595

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Forte, Antonio J [VerfasserIn]
Huayllani, Maria T [VerfasserIn]
Boczar, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Cinotto, Gabriela [VerfasserIn]
Ciudad, Pedro [VerfasserIn]
Manrique, Oscar J [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Xiaona [VerfasserIn]
McLaughlin, Sarah A [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Assessment
Breast cancer
Diagnosis
Journal Article
Lymphedema
Review
Staging
Ultrasound elastography (UE)

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Date Revised 19.09.2021

published: Print

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.21037/gs.2020.02.08

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM310029244