Table 1.
Search Strategy
| Search | Search words | Articles retrieved | ||
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| MEDLINE | Web of Science | Scopus | ||
| #1 | skin or derma* or dermis or cutaneous or cutis | 761772 | 641499 | 1272045 |
| #2 | subcutaneous or subcutis or fat or adipose or fascia | 362231 | 409907 | 670890 |
| #3 | elastography or sonoelastography or ‘elasticity imaging techniques’ | 6611 | 9794 | 7800 |
| #4 | #1 or #2 | 1089504 | 1026115 | 1880464 |
| #5 | #3 AND #4 | 413 | 555 | 454 |
| #6 | Following refinements or limitations* | 234 | 262 | 192 |
| #7 | After removing duplicates, screening of titles, abstracts and keywords | 54 | +14 | +8 |
| Total Articles: 76 | ||||
Refinements or Limitations.
MEDLINE: Refined to include the major headings elasticity imaging techniques (222); skin (36); skin physiological phenomena (24). Scopus was limited to medicine - (370), and excluded: biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology (56); Engineering (47); Physics and Astronomy (32); Materials science (23); Computer Science (18); Agricultural and Biological Sciences (3) and Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (3); letters (14) and book chapter (2); Review (28); Dentistry (2), neuroscience (1); Veterinary (1); Short survey (2). Web of Science: Refined to include engineering biomedical (79); dermatology (36); Medicine general internal (14); Multidisciplinary science (12); Oncology (11); nursing (2); Radiology nuclear medicine medical imaging (200); Surgery (19); Biophysics (29), limited to articles only.