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ReviewUltrasound international open2024

Ultrasound elastography: a brief clinical history of an evolving technique.

Christoph F Dietrich, Yi Dong, Xin-Wu Cui, Mathias Fink, Christian Jenssen, Kathleen Moeller, Laurent Sandrin, Sugimoto Tsuneyoshi, Mickael Tanter

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Review in Ultrasound international open, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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11citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  3. Kidney Elastography in Adult Nephrology: A Narrative Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  10. [Imaging in chronic inflammatory bowel disease].Innere Medizin (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2025
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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

9 authors.

Christoph F DietrichDepartment General Internal Medicine, Kliniken Hirslanden Beau Site, Salem und Permanence, Bern, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-6015-6347
Yi DongDepartment of Ultrasound, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Xin-Wu CuiMedical Ultrasound, Tongji Hospital of Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.ORCID 0000-0003-3890-6660
Mathias FinkInstitut Langevin, PSL University, Paris, France.
Christian JenssenInternal Medicine, Krankenhaus Märkisch-Oderland GmbH, Strausberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7008-6650
Kathleen MoellerGastroenterology, Sana Hospital Lichtenberg, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0009-0002-9492-0141
Laurent SandrinR&D Department, Echosens SA, Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0002-0433-736X
Sugimoto TsuneyoshiGraduate School of Engineering, Toin University of Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan.
Mickael TanterInstitute Physics for Medicine, PSL University, Paris, France.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The history of the emerging elastographic technique is presented. Ultrasound imaging of elasticity and tissue strain has gained clinical acceptance as an established technique useful in routine daily clinical practice.

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elastographyhistoryultrasound

Identifiers

PMID39403543
PMCPMC11472523

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