Preliminary experience with tele-sonography and tele-mammography in Togo
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Many medical centres are equipped with a sonograph. However, a sonographist is not always present or is not trained in all of the specialised domains of sonography. . A sonogram is not always possible due to a lack of physicians. This situation has given rise to the concept of remote-controlled sonography: tele-sonography, a medical procedure used in remote sonographic diagnosis in real time or deferred time. Tele-sonography can now be carried out in real time by the transmission of the expert's procedure (robotic system) or by the use of a 3D sonograph in real time. These modes of real time tele-sonography rely on expensive technologies requiring budgets and an infrastructure that is not always possible in developing countries where the needs in tele-medicine are increasing. This paper aimed to present a preliminary evaluation of a "low cost" system of sonographic tele-expertise in real time and the deferred sonographic telediagnosis accompanied by a tele-mammography between expert sites (university hospitals) and isolated sites (peripheral hospitals, dispensaries).
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- Authors
- Adambounou, K., Farin, F., Boucher, A., Adjenou, K. V., Gbeassor, M., N’dakena, K., Vincent, N., & Arbeille, P.
- Affiliations
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Tours (FR)
- Université Paris Descartes (FR)
- Corresponding author
- Adambounou, K.
- Venue
- Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2012-07
- Volume
- 93
- Issue
- 7-8
- Pages
- 639-642
- ISSN
- 2211-5684 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2055858051
- Cited by
- 13
- References
- 9
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 2
- FWCI
- 1.55
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine › Ultrasound in Clinical Applications
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Radiology practices and education
- Keywords
- telemedicine, peripheral hospitals, physician shortage, Togo
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Mammography, Pilot Projects, Togo, Ultrasonography, Telemedicine
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