Cancers, Vol. 14, Pages 564: High-Definition Ultrasound Characterization of Squamous Carcinoma of the Tongue: A Descriptive Observational Study

Cancers, Vol. 14, Pages 564: High-Definition Ultrasound Characterization of Squamous Carcinoma of the Tongue: A Descriptive Observational Study Cancers doi: 10.3390/cancers14030564 Authors: Dario Di Di Stasio Marco Montella Antonio Romano Giuseppe Colella Rosario Serpico Alberta Lucchese High-definition ultrasonography is a diagnostic tool that uses sound echoes to produce images of tissues and organs. In the head and neck region, ultrasounds have been used to diagnose different types of lesions. The intraoral approach was shown to be a real-time, non-invasive way to characterize oral lesions. The tongue is the most often examined region because of its accessibility. This observational study aimed to describe the qualitative characteristics of tongue squamous cell carcinoma images obtained with high-definition intraoral ultrasound by comparing them with the corresponding histopathological sample. Twenty patients were enrolled in this study. The scans of the lesions were carried out with an 18 MHz linear ultrasound probe following the long axis of the lesion. For each lesion, five frames were selected, on which descriptive analysis was performed. A histological sample was taken and then compared to the ultrasonographic acquisition. The sonographic appearance of the tissue layers has a good correlation between ultrasound and histological morphology, and it was easy to distinguish the tumor from the homogenous composition of the tongue tissues. Furthermore, a c...
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