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Value of shear wave elastography in discriminating malignant and benign breast lesions: A meta-analysis.
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- Dual-mode 3D shear wave elastography with qualitative and quantitative assessment improves diagnosis of inguinal lymph node metastasis.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2026Article
- Differentiating triple-negative breast cancer and atypical fibroadenomas using an ultrasound-based radiomics nomogram.BMC medical imaging · 2025Article
- Using Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts as a Shear-Wave Elastography Imaging Biomarker to Predict Anti-PD-1 Efficacy of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Development of a nomogram for predicting malignancy in BI-RADS 4 breast lesions using contrast-enhanced ultrasound and shear wave elastography parameters.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Clinical value of quantitative analysis of Sonazoid-contrast enhanced ultrasound combined with shear wave elastography in discriminating and diagnosing breast tumor characteristics.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Article
- Endoscopic Ultrasound Advanced Techniques for Diagnosis of Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumours.Cancers · 2023Review
- Strain and Shear-Wave Elastography and Their Relationship to Histopathological Features of Canine Mammary Nodular Lesions.Veterinary sciences · 2022Article
- TGF-β1 and its signal molecules: are they correlated with the elasticity characteristics of breast lesions?BMC cancer · 2021Article
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- Application of ultrasonic dual-mode artificially intelligent architecture in assisting radiologists with different diagnostic levels on breast masses classification.Diagnostic and interventional radiology (Ankara, Turkey) · 2021Article
- TGF-β1: is it related to the stiffness of breast lesions and can it predict axillary lymph node metastasis?Annals of translational medicine · 2021Article
- Intraoperative Ultrasound Shear-Wave Elastography in Focal Cortical Dysplasia Surgery.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Efficacy of Endoscopic Ultrasound Elastography in Differential Diagnosis of Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor Versus Gastrointestinal Leiomyoma.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2021Article
- [Ultrasound elastography techniques in breast cancer].Der Radiologe · 2021Review
- Diagnostic performance of shear wave elastography in discriminating malignant and benign breast lesions : Our experience with QelaXtoTM software.Journal of ultrasound · 2020Observational
- Shear wave versus strain elastography in the differentiation of benign and malignant breast lesionsTurkish journal of medical sciences · 2019Article
- Reappraisal of shear wave elastography as a diagnostic tool for identifying thyroid carcinoma.Endocrine connections · 2019Article
- Diagnostic performance of qualitative and quantitative shear wave elastography in differentiating malignant from benign breast masses, and association with the histological prognostic factors.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2019Article
- Further characterization of changes in axial strain elastograms due to the presence of slippery tumor boundaries.Journal of medical imaging (Bellingham, Wash.) · 2018Article
- Diagnostic value of strain elastography and shear wave elastography in differentiating benign and malignant breast lesions.Annals of Saudi medicineArticle
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Abstract
The analysis was aimed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of shear wave elastography (SWE) for malignant breast lesions through a meta-analysis.Related articles were searched from Pubmed, Embase, and Cochrane library. Overall sensitivity and specificity were analyzed with DerSimonian and Laird random effects model. Area under curve with corresponding 95% confidence interval (were calculated to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of SWE. Sensitivity and publication bias were assessed as well.A total of 25 articles including 4128 patients and 4546 breast lesions were included in the pooled analysis. In the subgroup analysis, diagnostic sensitivity and specificity of SWE in Asian population were 0.84 (0.79-0.88) and 0.87 (0.84-0.90), respectively, whereas they were 0.92 (0.86-0.96) and 0.89 (0.84-0.92) in Caucasian population. The diagnostic accuracy of SWE was a little higher for Caucasians than for Asians (0.95 vs. 0.92). The diagnostic sensitivity and specificity of virtual touch tissue quantification were 0.85 (0.77-0.91) and 0.93 (0.88-0.96), respectively. It showed a little higher value in specificity and summary ROC curve than SWE (0.93 vs. 0.87; 0.95 vs. 0.93). In addition, maximum stiffness exhibited higher detection sensitivity than that of mean stiffness (0.91 vs. 0.85).SWE serves as an accurate diagnostic technology for discriminating between malignant and benign breast lesions.
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