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ReviewBioMed research international2014

Real-time elastography of the prostate.

D Junker, T De Zordo, M Quentin, M Ladurner, J Bektic, W Horniger, W Jaschke, F Aigner

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Review in BioMed research international, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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19citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

D JunkerDepartment of Radiology, Medical University Innsbruck, Anichstraße 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
T De ZordoDepartment of Radiology, Medical University Innsbruck, Anichstraße 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
M QuentinDepartment of Radiology, Medical University Innsbruck, Anichstraße 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria ; Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf, Moorenstraße 5, 40225 Dusseldorf, Germany.
M LadurnerDepartment of Urology, Medical University Innsbruck, Anichstraße 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
J BekticDepartment of Urology, Medical University Innsbruck, Anichstraße 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
W HornigerDepartment of Urology, Medical University Innsbruck, Anichstraße 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
W JaschkeDepartment of Radiology, Medical University Innsbruck, Anichstraße 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
F AignerDepartment of Radiology, Medical University Innsbruck, Anichstraße 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
Innsbruck Medical University · ATHeinrich Heine University Düsseldorf · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Palpation of organs is one of the oldest clinical examination techniques, for instance, if you think of the palpation of the breast or the digital rectal examination of the prostate, where hard palpable regions are suspicious for cancer. This is the basic principle of real-time elastography, an ultrasound technique, which is able to visualise tissue elasticity. Since prostate cancer features an increased stiffness due to the higher cell and vessel density than the normal surrounding tissue, real-time elastography has been used for several years for prostate cancer detection. This review introduces the different techniques of ultrasound elastography and furthermore summarises its limitations and potentials.

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Elasticity Imaging TechniquesHumansMaleProstateProstatic Neoplasms

Identifiers

PMID24967334
PMCPMC4054974
OpenAlexW1980080154

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