Acoustic radiation force imaging (ARFI) is a type of quantitative sonoelastography (SE) that has been used to determine tissue stiffness in many disorders including liver fibrosis, breast cancer, thyroid nodules and more recently, cutaneous scleroderma. However the use of this technology for the assessment of skin lesions in the paediatric population has not yet been investigated. The purpose of this study is to test the feasibility of using ARFI SE to quantify the stiffness of morphea or localized scleroderma (LS) and hypertrophic burn scars (HTS), two skin conditions in which there is excessive deposition of collagenous and non-collagenous extracellular matrix causing fibrosis. Read More

Meeting name: SPR 2019 Annual Meeting & Postgraduate Course , 2019

Authors: Perez Matta Maria Manuela, Zuccaro Jennifer, Mohanta Arun, Fish Joel, Pope Elena, Laxer Ronald, Doria Andrea

Keywords: Sonoelastography, Scars, Scleroderma