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Performance of shear wave elastography for differentiation of benign and malignant solid breast masses.
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- Combination of shear-wave elastography with ultrasonography for detection of breast cancer and reduction of unnecessary biopsies: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Ultrasonography (Seoul, Korea) · 2021Pooled it
- Elastography by acoustic radiation force impulse technology for differentiation of benign and malignant breast lesions: a meta-analysis.Journal of medical ultrasonics (2001) · 2016Pooled it
- Diagnostic performance of shear-wave dispersion imaging and shear-wave elastography for differentiating benign and malignant breast masses.European radiology · 2026Article
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- Quantitative Shear Wave Elastography: A Phantom-Based Comparison of Two Ultrasound Systems.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Impact of loading, heart rate, and short episodes of ischaemia on myocardial stiffness assessed using shear wave elastography in an open-chest animal model.European heart journal. Imaging methods and practice · 2025Article
- Impact of shear wave dispersion slope analysis for assessing the severity of myocarditis.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Diagnostic Performance of Point Shear Wave Elastography (pSWE) Using Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) Technology in Mesenteric Masses: A Feasibility Study.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- What shear wave elastography parameter best differentiates breast cancer and predicts its histologic aggressiveness?Ultrasonography (Seoul, Korea) · 2021Article
- Stiffness increases with myofibroblast content and collagen density in mesenchymal high grade serous ovarian cancer.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Why Are Viscosity and Nonlinearity Bound to Make an Impact in Clinical Elastographic Diagnosis?Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- A Pilot Study: N-Staging Assessment of Shear Wave Elastrography in Small Cervical Lymph Nodes for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma.Frontiers in oncology · 2020Article
- The Japanese Breast Cancer Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for Breast Cancer Screening and Diagnosis, 2018 Edition.Breast cancer (Tokyo, Japan) · 2020Article
- Principles of ultrasound elastography.Abdominal radiology (New York) · 2018Review
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- Combining Virtual Touch Tissue Imaging and BI-RADS May Improve Solid Breast Lesion Evaluation.Breast care (Basel, Switzerland) · 2017Article
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- Diagnostic features of quantitative comb-push shear elastography for breast lesion differentiation.PloS one · 2017Article
- Combination of two-dimensional shear wave elastography with ultrasound breast imaging reporting and data system in the diagnosis of breast lesions: a new method to increase the diagnostic performance.European radiology · 2016Article
- Shear wave elastography results correlate with liver fibrosis histology and liver function reserve.World journal of gastroenterology · 2016Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo perform a meta-analysis assessing the ability of shear wave elastography (SWE) to identify malignant breast masses.
methodsPubMed, the Cochrane Library, and the ISI Web of Knowledge were searched for studies evaluating the accuracy of SWE for identifying malignant breast masses. The diagnostic accuracy of SWE was evaluated according to sensitivity, specificity, and hierarchical summary receiver operating characteristic (HSROC) curves. An analysis was also performed according to the SWE mode used: supersonic shear imaging (SSI) and the acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) technique. The clinical utility of SWE for identifying malignant breast masses was evaluated using analysis of Fagan plot.
resultsA total of 9 studies, including 1888 women and 2000 breast masses, were analyzed. Summary sensitivities and specificities were 0.91 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.88-0.94) and 0.82 (95% CI, 0.75-0.87) by SSI and 0.89 (95% CI, 0.81-0.94) and 0.91 (95% CI, 0.84-0.95) by ARFI, respectively. The HSROCs for SSI and ARFI were 0.92 (95% CI, 0.90-0.94) and 0.96 (95% CI, 0.93-0.97), respectively. SSI and ARFI were both very informative, with probabilities of 83% and 91%, respectively, for correctly differentiating between benign and malignant breast masses following a "positive" measurement (over the threshold value) and probabilities of disease as low as 10% and 11%, respectively, following a "negative" measurement (below the threshold value) when the pre-test probability was 50%.
conclusionsSWE could be used as a good identification tool for the classification of breast masses.
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