Clin Endosc.  2023 Mar;56(2):185-187. 10.5946/ce.2023.046.

Standardization of endoscopic ultrasound shear wave elastography

• Iglesias-García J
• Domínguez-Muñoz JE

• KMID: 2540735
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.5946/ce.2023.046

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  Fig. 1. Endoscopic ultrasound-guided strain elastography of a solid pancreatic mass, showing the typical heterogeneous blue predominant pattern, with a strain histogram of 38.39.

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  Fig. 2. Endoscopic ultrasound-guided shear wave elastographic evaluation of a patient with early changes of chronic pancreatitis. In the top of the screen the box is showing the mean velocity (Vs) (1.55) and Kpascales (Kpas) (7.16).

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