Real time evaluation of monolateral clubfoot with sonoelastography
| Autor: | Giovanni Simonetti, Giuseppe Guglielmi, Giulia Claroni, Marco Antonicoli, Daniele Morosetti, Guglielmo Manenti, Salvatore Masala |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Clubfoot Child Preschool Computer Systems Feasibility Studies Female Humans Infant Infant Newborn Elasticity Imaging Techniques Settore MED/36 - Diagnostica per Immagini e Radioterapia Medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Child Preschool Pathological Neuroradiology Achilles tendon medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Ultrasound Interventional radiology General Medicine Newborn medicine.disease Ponseti method Surgery medicine.anatomical_structure Cohort business |
| Zdroj: | La Radiologia medica. 119(8) |
| ISSN: | 1826-6983 |
| Popis: | This study was undertaken to assess the feasibility of real-time elastosonography (RTE) of Achilles tendon in the clinical evaluation of a cohort of children affected by unilateral clubfoot, not surgically treated. Twenty patients affected by unilateral clubfoot were evaluated. The study group consisted of 8 males and 12 females (mean age, 16 ± 7.3 months), all treated with the Ponseti method. Children were divided into two groups according to age: group 1 aged 0–18 months, and group 2 aged 18–60 months. Any further systemic pathological conditions were considered exclusion criteria. For each subject, RTE examination of the Achilles tendons was performed bilaterally, and then regions of interest (ROIs) were positioned. In children aged 0–18 months, the mean value ROI 1/mean value ROI 2 ratio was 2.0 ± 0.18 and it showed a statistically significant difference if compared to the same ratio from healthy tendons, 2.5 ± 0.17 (p |
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