Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disease and mainly affects the joints. The characteristic intra-articular manifestations of RA are joint effusion, synovial hypertrophy, synovitis and bone erosion. Musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSUS) is one of the useful imaging...
Chronic liver disease is one of the leading causes of significant morbidity and mortality. Accurate evaluation of liver fibrosis is important because management and prognosis depend on the degree of liver fibrosis. Liver biopsy has been gold standard for evaluating the degree of...
Ultrasonography is commonly used in the diagnosis and management of kidney-related disease. Most of the renal masses are found incidentally by ultrasound, computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging. The renal mass is divided into a cystic mass and a solid mass according t...
Background/Aims: The evaluation of liver fibrosis is important in the management of chronic liver disease. Because of limitations of liver biopsy in clinical use, ultrasound base elastographies to estimate liver stiffness have been developed. We investigated the correlation and ...
