ArticleFrontiers in pediatrics2022
Preliminary study of sound touch elastography in diffuse thyroid disease in children.
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- A meta-analysis: elucidating diagnostic thresholds of peak systolic flow velocities in thyroid arteries for the discrimination of Graves' disease and destructive thyrotoxicosis.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2024Pooled it
- The Role of Thyroid Elastography in Children with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus or Celiac Disease Who Have Negative Thyroid Autoantibodies.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Value of two-dimensional shear wave elastography quantitative analysis for evaluation of thyroid function in first trimester pregnancy.World journal of radiology · 2025Article
- Imaging findings of thyroid diseases in children.Clinical pediatric endocrinology : case reports and clinical investigations : official journal of the Japanese Society for Pediatric Endocrinology · 2025Review
- Multimodal ultrasonography in the diagnosis and treatment of chronic thyrotoxic myopathy: a prospective study.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
- Ultrasound Elastography in Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- A Comparative Analysis of Strain and 2D Shear Wave Elastography in the Diagnosis of Autoimmune Thyroiditis in Pediatric Patients.Biomedicines · 2023Article
- Multiparametric ultrasound-based assessment of overt hyperthyroid diffuse thyroid disease.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of sound touch elastography (STE) in conjunction with conventional ultrasound in the differential diagnosis of diffuse thyroid disease (DTD) and normal thyroid in children. Methods: Studies performed on 62 children with DTD and 30 normal volunteers were reviewed. Standard gray scale ultrasound, Doppler ultrasound and STE of the examinees, and the serum test results of children with DTD were collected, analyzed and compared. Results: The STE-Mean values in the Graves' disease (GD) group, Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) group, and normal control group, respectively, were 19.35 ± 5.00 kPa, 19.43 ± 6.06 kPa, and 11.24 ± 1.99 kPa. With an area under the ROC curve (AUC) of 0.945, STE-Mean values differentiated DTD from normal children. The peak systolic velocity (PSV) of the superior thyroid artery separated DTD from normal children and AUC from children with GD and HT, respectively, and was 0.992 and 0.864. The PSV of superior thyroid artery revealed a somewhat favorable connection with FT3 and FT4. Conclusion: The STE results revealed that thyroid stiffness was higher in children with DTD than in normal children, but further differentiation into GD and HT subgroups lacked specificity, and the superior thyroid artery flow velocity might be a good supplement to distinguish both.
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