Muscle Crush Injury of Extremity: Quantitative Elastography with Supersonic Shear Imaging

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• 作者：Faqin Lv^&lowast ; ; Jie Tang^&lowast ; ; ^{tangxier@163.com} ; Yukun Luo^&lowast ; ; Yu Ban^&dagger ; ; Rong Wu^&lowast ; ; Jiangke Tian^&lowast ; ; Tengfei Yu^&lowast ; ; Xia Xie^&lowast ; ; Tanshi Li^&dagger ;
• 关键词：Crush injury to extremity ; Muscle injury ; Supersonic shear imaging ; Quantitative ultrasonographic elastography
• 刊名：Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：May, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：38
• 期：5
• 页码：795-802
• 全文大小：1814 K

文摘

The aim of this study was to determine the characteristic of muscle crush injury at quantitative ultrasonographic elastography using supersonic shear imaging (SSI). Twenty-three New Zealand rabbits underwent?crush injury to left hind leg caused by a special balloon cuff device. Conventional ultrasonography and SSI quantitative elastography were performed at both crushed and uncrushed regions of the left hind legs. Quantitative lesion elasticity was measured using the Young¡¯s modulus (in kilopascals) at 0.5 h, 2 h, 6 h, 24 h and 72 h after the release of the crushing pressure. Compared with those from the uncrushed regions, both the maximum and mean elasticity values at these time points from the crushed regions were significantly higher (p?< 0.001). A receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis was employed to assess diagnostic performance. ROC curves showed that extremity crush injury was diagnosed using elasticity value and the greater the elasticity value, the greater the diagnostic value. SSI provides quantitative elasticity measurements, thus, adding complementary information that potentially could help in crush injury characterization with conventional ultrasonography.