ArticleBMC cancer2018
Shear wave elastography in the evaluation of level VI lymph nodes in papillary thyroid carcinoma: combined with gray-scale ultrasound ex vivo.
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- Diagnostic value of supersonic shear impulse elastography for malignant cervical lymph nodes: a Bayesian analysis.Ultrasonography (Seoul, Korea) · 2022Pooled it
- 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
- Diagnostic value of preoperative advanced doppler imaging with cervical maneuvers in the detection of central cervical lymph node metastasis in papillary thyroid carcinoma.BMC medical imaging · 2025Article
- Can pre-operative ultrasound elastography predict aggressive features of solitary papillary thyroid carcinoma?The British journal of radiology · 2023Article
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- The effect of regions-of-interest and elasticity modulus selection on differentiating benign and malignant cervical lymph nodes with shear wave elastography.Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2020Article
- VsN, a Reliability-index of Shear-wave Measurement in Sonoelastography, Is Useful for the Diagnosis of Thyroid Tumor Malignancy.In vivo (Athens, Greece)Article
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backgroundThe evaluation of cervical lymph nodes is very important for patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). Conventional ultrasound is recommended to assess the status of cervical lymph nodes but the diagnostic performance is not satisfying especially in level VI lymph nodes. Recently, shear wave elastography has shown great potential in diagnosis. Therefore, this study aimed at exploring the value of shear wave elastography in ultrasound evaluation for level VI lymph nodes in papillary thyroid carcinoma. Because Hashimoto's thyroiditis may influence the diagnostic performance, a subgroup was also analysed that included only lymph nodes from PTC without Hashimoto's thyroiditis.
methodsEighty-Seven level VI lymph nodes from 22 consecutive patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma were evaluated by gray-scale ultrasound and SWE in condition of ex vivo before rapid frozen section. Gray-scale ultrasound and shear wave elastography indexes of metastatic and non-metastatic lymph nodes were evaluated by statistical analysis separately in all patients and in patients without Hashimoto's thyroiditis. Indexes included long diameter, short diameter, short-to-long diameter ratio (S/L ratio), E
resultsIn all patients, significant indexes included short diameter (p = 0.009), S/L ratio (p = 0.003), E
conclusionShear wave elastography can provide additional information for ultrasound evaluation of level VI lymph nodes in papillary thyroid carcinoma, especially in papillary thyroid carcinoma without Hashimoto's thyroiditis.
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