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Veysel Burulday1, Adil Doğan1, Mehmet Hamdi Şahan1
1Department of Radiology, Kirikkale University, Kirikkale, Turkey.
Objectives:
The aim of this study was to compare the cross-sectional area and ultrasound elastographic findings of the median nerve of patients with acromegaly and healthy participants.
Methods:
The acromegaly group comprised 15 patients with a previous diagnosis of acromegaly, and an age- and sex-matched control group included healthy participants. Strain elastographic and shear wave elastographic findings and the cross-sectional areas of the groups were compared. A 6-15-MHz multifrequency transducer was used for ultrasound evaluations.
Results:
A total of 30 hands of 15 patients with acromegaly (7 male and 8 female) with a mean age ± SD of 50.00 ± 10.17 years and 40 hands of 20 healthy control participants (9 male and 11 female) with a mean age of 49.50 ± 10.17 years were taken into consideration for statistical analyses. The cross-sectional area of the patients with acromegaly was significantly higher than that of the healthy controls (13.43 ± 3.12 versus 8.32 ± 1.94 mm2 ; P < .05). Median nerve stiffness was significantly increased in the acromegaly group compared with the control group (axial and longitudinal, 37.15 ± 6.4 and 37.0 ± 6.19 versus 18.7 ± 4.1 and 19.2 ± 3.58 kPa, respectively; P < .001).
Conclusions:
These preliminary results have demonstrated that patients with acromegaly seem to have increased stiffness and cross-sectional area of the median nerve compared with healthy participants.
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