Iglesias García, JulioLariño Noia, JoséIglesia García, Daniel de laDomínguez Muñoz, Juan Enrique2023-01-172023-01-172022Best Practice & Research Clinical Gastroenterology 60–61 (2022) 101808http://hdl.handle.net/10347/29903Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) is an essential technique for the management of several diseases. Over the years, new technologies have been developed because to improve and overcome certain limitations related to EUS guided tissue acquisition. Among these new methods, EUS guided elastography and contrast enhanced EUS has arisen as the most widely recognized and available. We will review in this manuscript the different techniques of elastography and contrast enhancement. Nowadays, there are well establish indications for advance imaging, mainly for supporting the management of pancreatic diseases (diagnosis of chronic pancreatitis and differential diagnosis of solid and cystic pancreatic tumors) and characterization of lymph nodes. However, there are more data on new potential indications for the near futureeng© 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).Atribución 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Endoscopic ultrasoundAdvance imagingElastographyContrast enhancementDiagnosisjournal article10.1016/j.bpg.2022.1018081521-6918open access