Chinese Journal of Medical Imaging Technology 2017;33(9):1425-1427

doi:10.13929/j.1003-3289.201611098

Application progresses of strain ultrasound elastography in diagnosis and staging of rectal cancer

Jing FU ; Huai ZHAO ; Yaohuang JIANG ; Jin HU ; Fang LI ; Xiaoping LUO

Keywords

Ultrasonography; Elasticity imaging techniques; Rectal neoplasms; Diagnostic imaging

Country

China

Language

Chinese

Abstract

Trans-rectal ultrasound is widely used in the diagnosis of rectal cancer.Elastography technique is based on the endorectal conventional ultrasound and can assess tumor stiffness and further detect the characteristics of tumor.It is helpful to provide more information for the differential diagnosis of rectal cancer,preoperative staging and the chemotherapy efficacy evaluation.The applications of strain elastography in the diagnosis of rectal cancer were reviewed in this article.