ArticleFrontiers in pharmacology2018
Diagnostic Performance of Multiple Sound Touch Elastography for Differentiating Benign and Malignant Thyroid Nodules.
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- The value of sound touch elastography in the noninvasive staging of fibrosis in IgA nephropathy.BMC medical imaging · 2026Article
- Prediction of allograft function in pre-transplant kidneys using sound touch elastography (STE): an ex vivo study.Insights into imaging · 2024Article
- Modified TI-RADS Coupled with BRAFV600E Enhances Diagnostic Efficiency in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: Prospective Study.International journal of general medicine · 2024Article
- Combination of ultra-micro angiography and sound touch elastography for diagnosis of primary Sjögren's syndrome: a diagnostic test.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2023Article
- Sound touch elastography of Achilles tendons in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus versus healthy adults.Diabetology & metabolic syndrome · 2023Article
- Elastography of the thyroid nodule, cut-off points between benign and malignant lesions for strain, 2D shear wave real time and point shear wave: a correlation with pathology, ACR TIRADS and Alpha Score.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023Article
- Evaluation of Ultrasound Elastography Combined With Chi-Square Automatic Interactive Detector in Reducing Unnecessary Fine-Needle Aspiration on TIRADS 4 Thyroid Nodules.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Article
- Assessment of perinodular stiffness in differentiating malignant from benign thyroid nodules.Endocrine connections · 2021Article
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Abstract
This study evaluated the ability of Sound Touch Elastography (STE) to distinguish malignant from benign thyroid nodules by quantifying tumor stiffness using the elastic ratio (EI) and shear modulus (G). Eighty-six patients with 86 nodules were enrolled in this study. There were 24/86 (27.90%) thyroid papillary carcinomas (TPC) and 62/86 (72.10%) benign nodules. The mean EI was significantly lower in TPCs than in benign nodules. The EI area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) was 80%. The EI cutoff value for TPCs was 0.215%. The sensitivity (Sen), specificity (Spe), positive likelihood ratio (LR+), and negative likelihood ratio (LR-) were 71%, 73%, 2.58, and 0.40, respectively.
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