SynthesisJapanese journal of radiology2014
Diagnostic performances of shear-wave elastography for identification of malignant breast lesions: a meta-analysis.
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- Diagnostic performance of shear-wave dispersion imaging and shear-wave elastography for differentiating benign and malignant breast masses.European radiology · 2026Article
- Can strain US-elastography with strain ratio (SRE) improve the diagnostic accuracy in the assessment of breast lesions? Preliminary results.Journal of ultrasound · 2021Article
- Electronic Point Spread Function Rotation Using a Three-Row Transducer for ARFI-Based Elastic Anisotropy Assessment: In Silico and Experimental Demonstration.IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · 2021Article
- Why Are Viscosity and Nonlinearity Bound to Make an Impact in Clinical Elastographic Diagnosis?Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- The Japanese Breast Cancer Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for Breast Cancer Screening and Diagnosis, 2018 Edition.Breast cancer (Tokyo, Japan) · 2020Article
- A Pilot Study: N-Staging Assessment of Shear Wave Elastrography in Small Cervical Lymph Nodes for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma.Frontiers in oncology · 2020Article
- Breast adenoid cystic carcinoma: report of a case with emphasis on routine sonographic findings and shear wave elastography.Journal of medical ultrasonics (2001) · 2018Article
- Shear-wave elastography in breast ultrasonography: the state of the art.Ultrasonography (Seoul, Korea) · 2017Review
- The validity and reliability of using ultrasound elastography to measure cutaneous stiffness, a systematic review.International journal of burns and trauma · 2017Review
- Strain histograms are equal to strain ratios in predicting malignancy in breast tumours.PloS one · 2017Article
- Ultrasound Elastography: Review of Techniques and Clinical Applications.Theranostics · 2017Review
- Prediction of invasive breast cancer using shear-wave elastography in patients with biopsy-confirmed ductal carcinoma in situ.European radiology · 2017Article
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Abstract
purposeTo examine the performance of shear-wave elastography (SWE) for the differentiation of benign and malignant breast lesions using a meta-analysis. MATERIALS AND
methodsPubMed, Embase and the Cochrane library were searched for studies published up to January 2014. The references of retrieved relevant articles were reviewed to identify potential publications. Random-effect meta-analysis was conducted to assess the overall sensitivity and specificity of SWE in the differentiation of breast lesions.
resultsA total of 11 articles, including 2424 patients, were included in the present meta-analysis. The summarized sensitivity and specificity of the shear wave elastography performance based on maximum elasticity were 0.93 (95 % CI 0.91-0.95) and 0.81 (95 % CI 0.78-0.83), respectively. For the mean elasticity, the summarized sensitivity and specificity were 0.94 (95 % CI 0.92-0.96) and 0.71 (95 % CI 0.69-0.74), respectively. The summarized sensitivity and specificity were 0.77 (95 % CI 0.70-0.83) and 0.88 (95 % CI 0.84-0.91) for the SD of elasticity.
conclusionSWE has a high sensitivity and specificity in the differentiation of benign and malignant breast lesions. More large and prospective studies are warranted to further examine the performance of SWE.
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