Clinical Usefulness of Sonoelastography in Infants With Congenital Muscular Torticollis
Annals of Rehabilitation Medicine
; : 28-33, 2016.
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OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the clinical usefulness of sonoelastography in infants with congenital muscular torticollis (CMT). METHODS: The medical records of 215 infants clinically diagnosed with CMT were retrospectively reviewed. Fifty-three infants met the inclusion criteria as follows: 1) infants diagnosed as CMT with a palpable neck mass before 3 months of age, 2) infants who were evaluated initially by both B-mode ultrasonography and sonoelastography, and 3) infants who had received physical therapy after being diagnosed with CMT. We checked the thickness of the sternocleidomastoid (SCM) muscles in B-mode ultrasonography, strain ratio of the SCM muscles in sonoelastography, and treatment duration. We evaluated the correlation between the treatment duration and the following factors: SCM muscle thickness, ratio of SCM muscle thickness on the affected to unaffected side (A/U ratio), and strain ratio. RESULTS: Both the thickness of the affected SCM muscle and the A/U ratio did not show significant correlation with the treatment duration (p=0.66, p=0.90). The strain ratio of the affected SCM muscle was significantly greater than that of the unaffected SCM muscle (p<0.001), and the strain ratio showed significant correlation with the treatment duration (p=0.001). CONCLUSION: Sonoelastography may be a useful adjunctive tool to B-mode ultrasonography for evaluating infants with CMT, especially when predicting their rehabilitation outcomes.
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Prognóstico
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Reabilitação
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Torcicolo
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Prontuários Médicos
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Estudos Retrospectivos
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Ultrassonografia
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Técnicas de Imagem por Elasticidade
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Músculos
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Pescoço
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Humans
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Infant
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En
Revista:
Annals of Rehabilitation Medicine
Ano de publicação:
2016
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