Diagnosis of the thyroid cancer with real-time sono-elastography
QU Feng-hua
LI Ying
SUN Jian-yu
LIU Jing-jing
Abstract：Objective To study the value of ultrasonic elastography (UE) in thyroid cancer .Methods Forty patients with 42 thyroid cancer lesions were examined by conventional ultrasound and ultrasonic elastography .All the cases were proved by surgical pathology .Results The sensitivity ,specificity ,and the accuracy of convention ultrasound in the diag‐nosis of thyroid cancer were 78 .57% ,71 .43% ,76 .19% respectively , and those of UE were 81 .48% , 80.00% , 80.95% ,while ,those of conventional ultrasound in conjunction with UE were 85 .71% ,87 .50% ,and 90 .47% .Statisti‐cal results showed there was no significant difference in accuracy between conventional ultrasound and UE .There was sig‐nificant difference in accuracy between conventional ultrasound and conventional ultrasound in conjunction with UE ,and there was significant difference in accuracy between UE and conventional ultrasound in conjunction with UE .Conclusion The combination of conventional ultrasound and UE can improve the accuracy .
Keywords：Ultrasonic elastographyConventional ultrasoundThyroid cancer
Publication Date：2015-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 789-791 )