Elastographic Techniques in Diagnosing Endocrine Disease

Dear Colleagues,

Technological advancements in the field of ultrasonography have introduced elastography as a novel and improved method, complementary to conventional ultrasonography.

Elastography can be used to assess tissue stiffness with the potential of differentiating benign from malignant tissues. It can also be used to appraise quantitative and qualitative information concerning tissue stiffness by measuring tissue elasticity. Elastography has been validated as a marker of pathological states in many clinical areas by improving diagnostic methods and establishing its role in endocrinology, hepato-gastroenterology, senology, urology, and otorhinolaryngology.

Various elastographic techniques have been developed, based on the ultrasound signal processing method, allowing a direct, repeatable, harmless, non-invasive quantification, with direct measurements of the structural tissue changes.

In this Special Issue, we invite submissions exploring endocrine disease, targeting thyroid (including both nodular goiter and autoimmune disease) and parathyroid disease, also taking into consideration differential diagnosis with other surrounding tissues. Elastography has been repeatably proven as a useful qualitative and quantitative tool that can offer a better differentiation of tissue elasticity, thus facilitating diagnosis and therapeutic management.

Contributions can focus on correctly recognizing disease, differential diagnostics and diagnostics of different types of endocrine disturbances. Survey papers and reviews are welcomed.

Dr. Laura Cotoi
Prof. Dr. Stoian Dana
Dr. Amzar Daniela
Guest Editors

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• shear wave elastography
• strain elastography
• stiffness
• thyroid nodules
• primary hyperparathyroidism
• secondary hyperparathyroidism
• muscle tissue
• lymphadenopathy
• elastography
• thyroid ultrasound