title: WFUMB Guidelines and Recommendations on the Clinical Use of Ultrasound Elastography: Part 5. Prostate.
abstract: The World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (WFUMB) has produced guidelines for the use of elastography techniques, including basic science, breast, liver and thyroid elastography. Here we present elastography in prostate diseases. For each available technique, procedure, reproducibility, results and limitations are analyzed and recommendations are given. Finally, recommendations are given based on the level of evidence of the published literature and on the WFUMB expert group's consensus. This document has a clinical perspective and is aimed at assessing the usefulness of elastography in the management of prostate diseases.
authors: Department of Radiology, Northeastern Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, Ohio, USA; Southwoods Imaging, Youngstown, Ohio, USA.
authors: Richard G
authors: RG
authors: Barr
authors: Division of Radiology, Imperial and Kings Colleges, London, UK.
authors: David
authors: D
authors: Cosgrove
authors: Department of Urology, Marien Hospital Herne, Ruhr-University Bochum, Herne, Germany.
authors: Marko
authors: M
authors: Brock
authors: Department of Radiological Sciences, Oncology and Pathology, Policlinico Umberto I, University Sapienza, Rome, Italy.
authors: Vito
authors: V
authors: Cantisani
authors: Department of Adult Radiology, Paris-Descartes University and Necker University Hospital, Paris; Institut Langevin, Inserm U979, Paris, France.
authors: Jean Michel
authors: JM
authors: Correas
authors: Department of Urology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors: Arnoud W
authors: AW
authors: Postema
authors: Martini Klinik am Universitätsklinikum Hamburg, Eppendorf, Germany.
authors: Georg
authors: G
authors: Salomon
authors: Department of Urology, Hitachi General Hospital, Hitachi, Ibaraki, Japan.
authors: Masakazu
authors: M
authors: Tsutsumi
authors: Department of Medical Ultrasound, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Ultrasound Research and Education Institute, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
authors: Hui-Xiong
authors: HX
authors: Xu
authors: Department of Internal Medicine 2, Caritas Krankenhaus, Bad Mergentheim, Germany; Sino-German Research Center of Ultrasound in Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China. Electronic address: christoph.dietrich@ckbm.de.
authors: Christoph F
authors: CF
authors: Dietrich
mesh_terms: D054459:Elasticity Imaging Techniques / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D008297:Male; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011467:Prostate / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012955:Societies, Medical
keywords: Elastography; Guidelines; Prostate cancer; Shear wave elastography; Strain elastography; Transient elastography; World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology