Transthoracic Ultrasound Elastography in Pulmonary Lesions and Diseases

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• 作者：Chor-Kuan Lim^&lowast ; ; Che-Liang Chung^&dagger ; ; Yen-Ting Lin^&dagger ; ; Chia-Hao Chang^&Dagger ; ; Yi-Chun Lai^§ ; ; Hao-Chien Wang^‖ ; ^¶ ; ; ^{haochienwang@gmail.com} ; Chong-Jen Yu^‖ ; ^¶ ;
• 关键词：Transthoracic ; Ultrasound ; Elastography ; Pulmonary ; Lung ; Thorax
• 刊名：Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：43
• 期：1
• 页码：145-152
• 全文大小：1041 K
• 卷排序：43

文摘

Ultrasound elastography has shown promising result in the diagnosis of various diseases; however, its application for pulmonary diseases has yet to be clarified. This study aimed to assess the application and feasibility of ultrasound elastography in various pulmonary lesions and diseases. We enrolled 45 patients with radiographic evidence of pneumonia, tumors or obstructive pneumonitis, and 70 ultrasonic lesions were identified (eight necrosis, 17 atelectasis, seven consolidation and 38 tumors). Ultrasound elastography was performed and the strain ratio, which is the ratio of strain of the reference tissue to an equally measuring region of interest of a lesion, was measured. The strain ratio was significantly different among lesions with different ultrasound morphologies (1.03 ± 0.71 [necrosis] vs. 2.51 ± 1.14 [atelectasis] vs. 19.98 ± 15.59 [consolidation] vs. 36.19 ± 20.18 [tumor]; p < 0.05). The strain ratio of primary lung cancer was also significantly different from pneumonia (p = 0.023) and metastatic lung cancer (p = 0.015). In conclusion, transthoracic ultrasound elastography can differentiate pulmonary lesions with different ultrasound morphologies. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02636985.