title: Liver elastography, comments on EFSUMB elastography guidelines 2013.
abstract: Recently the European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology Guidelines and Recommendations have been published assessing the clinical use of ultrasound elastography. The document is intended to form a reference and to guide clinical users in a practical way. They give practical advice for the use and interpretation. Liver disease forms the largest section, reflecting published experience to date including evidence from meta-analyses with shear wave and strain elastography. In this review comments and illustrations on the guidelines are given.
authors.affiliation: Xin-Wu Cui, Chiara De Molo, Andre Ignee, Christoph F Dietrich, Department of Internal Medicine, Caritas-Krankenhaus Bad Mergentheim, 97980 Bad Mergentheim, Germany.
authors.forename: Xin-Wu
authors.initials: XW
authors.lastname: Cui
authors.forename: Mireen
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Friedrich-Rust
authors.forename: Chiara
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: De Molo
authors.forename: Andre
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ignee
authors.forename: Dagmar
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Schreiber-Dietrich
authors.forename: Christoph F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Dietrich
mesh_terms: D054459:Elasticity Imaging Techniques / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008103:Liver Cirrhosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011379:Prognosis; D012720:Severity of Illness Index
keywords: Elastography; Fibrosis; Guidelines; Liver; Ultrasound