The role of elastography in evaluating thyroid nodules: a literature review and meta-analysis

V Veer, S Puttagunta - European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, 2015 - Springer
… 96.7 %) of elastography is very good when assessing a thyroid nodule for malignancy. Subgroup
nodules had a significant impact in the ability of the elastography technique to evaluate

Shear wave elastography versus real-time elastography on evaluation thyroid nodules: a preliminary study

BX Liu, XY Xie, JY Liang, YL Zheng, GL Huang… - European journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Elastography either SWE or RTE with high specificity and … new dimension to ultrasound
evaluation of thyroid nodules. The … well evaluated qualitative RTE for the differentiation of thyroid

[HTML][HTML] Ultrasound elastography for thyroid nodules: recent advances

JY Kwak, EK Kim - Ultrasonography, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… as real-time tissue elastography. However, the diagnostic … thyroid nodules from benign
ones with elastography as an adjunctive tool of gray-scale US is still under debate. In this review

Role of thyroid ultrasound in the diagnostic evaluation of thyroid nodules

T Rago, P Vitti - Best practice & research Clinical endocrinology & …, 2008 - Elsevier
elastographic evaluation. It is important that the level of pressure is kept constant throughout
the examination. This technique is easy to perform and requires no more than 3–5 minutes …

Guidelines and recommendations on the clinical use of shear wave elastography for evaluating thyroid nodule

HX Xu, K Yan, BJ Liu, WY Liu, LN Tang… - Clinical …, 2019 - content.iospress.com
… use of elastography[7, 8], and affirmed the value of elastography in evaluating benign and
malignant thyroid nodules… However, the guidelines also point out that elastography should not …

Performance of elastography for the evaluation of thyroid nodules: a prospective study

G Azizi, J Keller, M Lewis, D Puett, K Rivenbark… - Thyroid, 2013 - liebertpub.com
… The primary goal of this study was to evaluate the performance of real-time elastography alone
and … Elastography can be easily integrated into a routine US examination. Our results are …

High diagnostic accuracy and interobserver reliability of real-time elastography in the evaluation of thyroid nodules

F Ragazzoni, M Deandrea, A Mormile… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2012 - Elsevier
… of thyroid nodules. Aim of the study was to evaluate the accuracy and reliability of elastography
in discriminating thyroid lesions and the interobserver variability. One hundred thirty-two …

Real-time ultrasound elastography—a noninvasive diagnostic procedure for evaluating dominant thyroid nodules

C Vorländer, J Wolff, S Saalabian… - … archives of surgery, 2010 - Springer
… This study included 309 prospective evaluated patients with dominant, nontoxic thyroid
nodules. All patients were referred to surgery. USE was performed preoperatively. …

Utility of elastography for differential diagnosis of benign and malignant thyroid nodules

R Kagoya, H Monobe, H Tojima - … —Head and Neck Surgery, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
thyroid nodules in 44 consecutive patients were examined with ultrasound elastography. The
… In addition, the mean strain index of the thyroid nodule and that of the sternocleidomastoid …

Real-time elastography and contrast-enhanced ultrasound for the assessment of thyroid nodules

M Friedrich-Rust, A Sperber, K Holzer… - Experimental and …, 2010 - thieme-connect.com
… -up of thyroid nodulesevaluate real-time elastography (RTE) and contrast-enhanced
ultrasound with Sonovue (CEUS) for the differentiation of benign and malignant thyroid nodules