SynthesisFrontiers in oncology2023
Diagnostic value of superb microvascular imaging and color doppler for thyroid nodules: A meta-analysis.
Synthesis in Frontiers in oncology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 20 citations in OpenAlex.
- Circulating donor-derived cell-free DNA as a marker for rejection after lung transplantation.Frontiers in immunology · 2023Pooled it
- Superb microvascular imaging enhances detection of microvascularity in plantar fasciosis: a clinical correlation study.Skeletal radiology · 2026Article
- Superb Microvascular Imaging-Enhanced Lymphatic Ultrasound for Preoperative Mapping in Lymphedema-related Lymphaticovenular Anastomosis.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2026Article
- Article
- High-frequency ultrasound combined with superb microvascular imaging for differential diagnosis of basal cell carcinoma and seborrheic keratosis: a retrospective analysis with nomogram implementation.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Evaluating the clinical impact of integrating superb microvascular imaging and shear wave elastography into TI-RADS.Journal of ultrasound · 2025Article
- Usefulness of ultrasound quantitative assessment of microvascularity in the thyroid nodule risk stratification.Journal of ultrasound · 2025Article
- Effectiveness of microvascular flow imaging for radiofrequency ablation in recurrent thyroid cancer: comparison with power Doppler imaging.European radiology · 2025Article
- Diagnostic Accuracy of Detective Flow Imaging Endoscopic Ultrasonography for Evaluating Blood Flow Within Mural Nodules of Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Diagnostic value of greyscale ultrasound combined with superb microvascular imaging in thyroid nodules: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2025Article
- Multimodal radiomics model with triple -timepoint contrast-enhanced ultrasound for precise diagnosis of C-TIRADS 4 thyroid nodules.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
- Comparison of micro-flow imaging and contrast-enhanced ultrasound in monitoring microwave ablation of papillary thyroid carcinoma: efficacy, safety, and cost-effectiveness.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Article
- Diagnostic performance of microvascular flow imaging for noninvasive assessment of liver fibrosis in chronic liver disease.PloS one · 2025Article
- Fisher discriminant analysis of multimodal ultrasound in diagnosis of cervical metastatic lymph nodes in papillary thyroid cancer.The Korean journal of internal medicine · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Objective: Superb micro-vascular imaging (SMI) is a new noninvasive modality for the diagnosis of thyroid nodules. However, the performance of SMI in differentiating malignant and benign thyroid nodules has not been systematically evaluated. This meta-analysis was performed to assess the accuracy of SMI in diagnosing thyroid nodules. Methods: PubMed, Cochrane Library, Embase, Web of Science, Sinomed, Scopus were searched. We recorded the characteristics of the included studies and assessed the quality of each study using the QUADAS-2 tool. The pooled sensitivity, specificity, positive likelihood ratio (LR), negative LR, diagnostic odds ratio (DOR), and area under the curve (AUC) were calculated. We also evaluated the publication bias. Results: This meta-analysis included 10 studies with a total of 1083 thyroid nodules. The pooled the sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative LR were 0.84, 0.86, 6.2, and 0.18, respectively. The DOR and AUC were 33 and 0.91, respectively. Heterogeneity existed between the included studies. No significant publication bias was observed. Conclusion: Compared with CDFI, Superb micro-vascular imaging (SMI) has higher diagnostic sensitivity and specificity, better diagnostic efficiency, and could be used to diagnose benign and malignant nodules in the display of blood flow distribution capabilities of thyroid nodules; at the same time, Fagan plot showed that the SMI technique had a good clinical application value, and it could supplement the deficiencies of color Doppler imaging in the diagnosis of thyroid nodules.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.