High-Resolution Nerve Ultrasonography (HRUS)
Measurement of peripheral nerve cross-sectional area and echotexture by high-frequency ultrasound. It detects asymmetric nerve enlargement more reproducibly than palpation, including in pure neuritic disease in which cutaneous signs are absent.
- Technology
- Clinical & Functional · Imaging
- What it measures
- Peripheral nerve cross-sectional area and echotexture
- Developer
- In-house
- Specimen
- None (clinical/imaging)
- Development status
- LDT with clinical validation
- Regulatory status
- CE marked
- Intended use
- Objective assessment of peripheral nerve involvement, including pure neuritic disease
- Main limitation
- Depends on the operator, and nerve enlargement is not specific to leprosy.
- Linked publications
- 91
- TPP-1, confirming leprosy
- 40.0 of 100, partial alignment
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