Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Elastography is a new dynamic technique that uses ultrasonography for the assessment of tissue stiffness. The principle of ultrasound-elastography is that compression of the examined tissue induces a smaller strain in hard tissues than in soft ones. Until now elastography has been applied to study the hardness and elasticity of thyroid nodules, aiming to differentiate malignant from benign ones.Aim: We decided to study if ultrasound elastog...