Keywords:
Fistula, Cysts, Abscess, Staging, Diagnostic procedure, Ultrasound-Power Doppler, Ultrasound, Ultrasound physics, Soft tissues / Skin, Anatomy
Authors:
N. Romano1, A. Fischetti1, I. Mussetto2, G. Merlo2, U. Viglino2, E. Cozzani2, A. Parodi2, A. Muda1; 1Genova/IT, 2GENOA/IT
DOI:
10.26044/ecr2019/C-0916
Methods and materials
Our work was conducted in collaboration with the Department of Dermatology of the University of Genoa.
35 patients with clinical diagnosis of HS were enrolled in this study (16 men and 19 women,
average age 35 years old).
Each patient underwent clinical examination performed by dermatologists and HRUS examination performed by radiologists.
Ultrasound examination was performed using a linear 18MHz ultrasound transducer.
During the scan,
the patients were sitting or lying in front of the examiner,
depending on the region to be examined.
Ultrasound gel was applied on the imaging area and the transducer gently placed perpendicular to the skin surface; hard compression with the probe was avoided.
During examination,
they were evaluated:
-the presence of the typical key lesions of HS (tab.1,
fig.1)
-the presence of lymph nodes
-the vascularization of the typical key lesions of HS using Power Doppler (PD) (fig.2)
For each patient,
the clinical “Hurley’s score” (tab.2) was compared with the sonographic “SOS-HS score” (tab.3).