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The Preciseness in Diagnosing Thyroid Malignant Nodules Using Shear-Wave Elastography.
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- US-Elastography With Different Techniques for Thyroid Nodule Characterization: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Pooled it
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- Impact of ultrasound elastography in evaluating Bethesda category IV thyroid nodules with histopathological correlation.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2024Article
- Association between diagnostic efficacy of acoustic radiation force impulse for benign and malignant thyroid nodules and the presence or absence of non-papillary thyroid cancer: A meta-analysis.Frontiers in oncology · 2023Review
- Differentiating thyroid nodules parathyroid lesions using 2D-shear-wave elastography: a novel approach for enhanced diagnostic accuracy.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023Article
- Diagnostic efficacy of a combination of the Chinese thyroid imaging reporting and data system and shear wave elastography in detecting category 4a and 4b thyroid nodules.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023Article
- Combined Shear Wave Elastography and EU TIRADS in Differentiating Malignant and Benign Thyroid Nodules.Cancers · 2022Article
- Quantification of Thyroid Viscosity in Healthy Subjects Using Ultrasound Shear Wave Dispersion (Viscosity PLUS).Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Added value of mass characteristic frequency to 2-D shear wave elastography for differentiation of benign and malignant thyroid nodules.Ultrasound in medicine & biology · 2022Article
- Efficacy of Differential Diagnosis of Thyroid Nodules by Shear Wave Elastography-the Stiffness Map.Journal of the Endocrine Society · 2021Article
- Evaluation of thyroid nodules by shear wave elastography: a review of current knowledge.Journal of endocrinological investigation · 2021Review
- Thyroid Nodule Characterization: How to Assess the Malignancy Risk. Update of the Literature.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Clinical Value of Shear Wave Elastography Color Scores in Classifying Thyroid Nodules.International journal of general medicine · 2021Article
- A retrospective study of reducing unnecessary thyroid biopsy for American College of Radiology Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data Systems 4 assessment through applying shear wave elastography.Archives of endocrinology and metabolism · 2020Article
- Incremental diagnostic value of shear wave elastography combined with contrast-enhanced ultrasound in TI-RADS category 4a and 4b nodules.Journal of medical ultrasonics (2001) · 2020Article
- Shear wave elasticity by tracing total nodule showed high reproducibility and concordance with fibrosis in thyroid cancer.BMC cancer · 2020Article
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Abstract
Our study aimed to identify more accurate results about the diagnostic role of shear-wave elastography (SWE) for thyroid malignant nodules through a meta-analysis. Potential articles were searched in PubMed, Embase, and the Cochrane Library databases. Overall sensitivity and specificity with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) was used to represent the diagnostic accuracy of SWE. Summary receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was constructed to illustrate the results. In addition, χ² and I² tests were performed to assess heterogeneity. A value of p≤0.05 indicated significant heterogeneity. All the analysis was conducted in Meta-DiSc version 1.4 software. Twenty studies were included in the analysis. There were a total of 2,907 patients and 3,397 thyroid nodules included in the meta-analysis. Overall sensitivity and specificity were 0.68 (95% CI: 0.66-0.70) and 0.85 (95% CI: 0.84-0.87), respectively. The results showed the area under curve (AUC) was 0.9041, suggesting high accuracy of SWE for differentiating benign and malignant thyroid nodules. SWE showed high accuracy in identifying thyroid malignant nodules, suggesting it could serve as a diagnostic biomarker in thyroid nodules.
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