Normative values of thymus in healthy children; stiffness by shear wave elastography

PURPOSEThymus grows after birth, reaches maximal size after the first few years and involutes by puberty. Because of the postnatal developmental and involutional duration, we aimed to investigate normal stiffness values of mediastinal thymus by shear wave elastography (SWE) in different age groups o...

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Main Authors: Zuhal Bayramoğlu, Mehmet Öztürk, Emine Çalışkan, Hakan Ayyıldız, İbrahim Adaletli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Galenos Publishing House 2020-03-01
Series:Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology
Online Access: http://www.dirjournal.org/archives/archive-detail/article-preview/normative-values-of-thymus-in-healthy-children-sti/54818