WFUMB Guidelines and Recommendations on the Clinical Use of Ultrasound Elastography: Part 5. Prostate

Richard G Barr; David Cosgrove; Marko Brock; Vito Cantisani; Jean Michel Correas; Arnoud W Postema; Georg Salomon; Masakazu Tsutsumi; Hui-Xiong Xu; Christoph F Dietrich

doi:10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2016.06.020

WFUMB Guidelines and Recommendations on the Clinical Use of Ultrasound Elastography: Part 5. Prostate

Ultrasound Med Biol. 2017 Jan;43(1):27-48. doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2016.06.020. Epub 2016 Aug 25.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology, Northeastern Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, Ohio, USA; Southwoods Imaging, Youngstown, Ohio, USA.
² Division of Radiology, Imperial and Kings Colleges, London, UK.
³ Department of Urology, Marien Hospital Herne, Ruhr-University Bochum, Herne, Germany.
⁴ Department of Radiological Sciences, Oncology and Pathology, Policlinico Umberto I, University Sapienza, Rome, Italy.
⁵ Department of Adult Radiology, Paris-Descartes University and Necker University Hospital, Paris; Institut Langevin, Inserm U979, Paris, France.
⁶ Department of Urology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁷ Martini Klinik am Universitätsklinikum Hamburg, Eppendorf, Germany.
⁸ Department of Urology, Hitachi General Hospital, Hitachi, Ibaraki, Japan.
⁹ Department of Medical Ultrasound, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Ultrasound Research and Education Institute, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
¹⁰ 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: [email protected].

PMID: 27567060
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2016.06.020

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.

Keywords: Elastography; Guidelines; Prostate cancer; Shear wave elastography; Strain elastography; Transient elastography; World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Elasticity Imaging Techniques / methods*
Elasticity Imaging Techniques / standards*
Humans
Internationality
Male
Practice Guidelines as Topic*
Prostate / diagnostic imaging*
Prostatic Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
Reproducibility of Results
Societies, Medical