Shear-Wave-Elastography in Neurofibromatosis Type I.

ABSTRACT: Ultrasound shear wave elastography (SWE) is an increasingly used imaging modality that expands clinical ultrasound by measuring the elasticity of various tissues, such as the altered elasticity of tumors. Peripheral nerve tumors are rare, have been well-characterized by B-mode-ultrasound, but have not yet been investigated with SWE. Given the lack of studies, a first step would be to investigate homogeneous peripheral nerve tumors (PNTs), histologically neurofibromas or schwannomas, which can occur in multiple in neurofibromatosis type 1 and 2 (NF1 and 2), respectively. Hence, we measured shear wave velocity (SWV) in 30 PNTs of 11 patients with NF1 within the median nerve. The SWV in PNTs ranged between 2.8 ± 0.8 m/s and correlated with their width and approximate volume but not with their

SUBMITTER: Staber D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8871512 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature