Kidney Ultrasound Elastography: Review

Yard. Doc. Dr. Mahmut Duymus, Gazi Universitesi Tip Fakultesi, Radyoloji Anabilim Dali, Ankara, Turkiye, Tel. 0312 212 68 40 Email. mahmutduymush@yahoo.com Gelis Tarihi: 13.04.2016 • Kabul Tarihi: 21.06.2016 ABSTRACT Kidneys are the most important and the functional organs in the body. There are numerous of disorders affecting the kidneys. The most important disorder is chronic kidney disease because of being costly and going to failure. In recent years ultrasound elastography technics showed increasing development line, and more studies were performed about elastography on kidneys. The weighted amount of the elastography studies are about chronic kidney disease, kidney failure and allograft patients, while some of them are about kidney masses or diabetic nephropathy. Various studies presented various results. In this review we want to present the elastography studies about kidney.