Role of sonographic elastography in the differential diagnosis of axillary lymph nodes in breast cancer

JJ Choi, BJ Kang, SH Kim, JH Lee… - Journal of ultrasound …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives The purpose of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic utility of sonographic
elastography in differentiating reactive and metastatic axillary lymph nodes in breast cancer …

Strain elastography of abnormal axillary nodes in breast cancer patients does not improve diagnostic accuracy compared with conventional ultrasound alone

YM Park, BD Fornage, AP Benveniste… - American Journal of …, 2014 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study was to determine the diagnostic value of strain
elastography (SE) alone and in combination with gray-scale ultrasound in the diagnosis of …

Role of elastography in axillary examination of patients with breast cancer

W Chang, W Jia, J Shi, C Yuan… - Journal of Ultrasound …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives This study aimed at exploring the role of ultrasound (US) elastography in the
diagnosis of the axillary lymph node status in patients with breast cancer. Methods We …

Sonographic elastography improves the sensitivity and specificity of axilla sampling in breast cancer: a prospective study

WC Tsai, CKJ Lin, HK Wei, BL Yu, CF Hung… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2013 - Elsevier
We describe a study to determine whether elastography of axillary lymph nodes (LNs)
combined with B-mode ultrasound (US) is capable of differentiating the benign from the …

Ultrasound elastography as an adjuvant to conventional ultrasound in the preoperative assessment of axillary lymph nodes in suspected breast cancer: a pilot study

K Taylor, S O'Keeffe, PD Britton, MG Wallis, GM Treece… - Clinical radiology, 2011 - Elsevier
AIMS: To compare the performance of ultrasound elastography with conventional ultrasound
in the assessment of axillary lymph nodes in suspected breast cancer and whether …

Differentiation of benign and metastatic axillary lymph nodes in breast cancer: additive value of shear wave elastography to B-mode ultrasound

M Seo, YM Sohn - Clinical imaging, 2018 - Elsevier
Objectives The purpose of this study is to evaluate the additive value of shear wave
elastography (SWE) for differentiating benign and metastatic axillary lymph nodes (LNs) in …

Application of real-time elastography ultrasound in the diagnosis of axillary lymph node metastasis in breast cancer patients

Y Xu, X Bai, Y Chen, L Jiang, B Hu, B Hu, L Yu - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
The pathological status of axillary lymph nodes (ALN) plays a critical role in the staging and
treatment of patients with breast cancer. Therefore, differential diagnosis of metastatic ALN is …

Real-time ultrasound elastography in 180 axillary lymph nodes: elasticity distribution in healthy lymph nodes and prediction of breast cancer metastases

S Wojcinski, J Dupont, W Schmidt, M Cassel… - BMC medical …, 2012 - Springer
Background To determine the general appearance of normal axillary lymph nodes (LNs) in
real-time tissue sonoelastography and to explore the method′ s potential value in the …

Diagnostic accuracy of shear wave elastography as an adjunct tool in detecting axillary lymph nodes metastasis

WL Ng, N Omar, N Ab Mumin, MTR Hamid… - Academic radiology, 2022 - Elsevier
Objectives This study evaluates the diagnostic performance of shear wave elastography
(SWE) in differentiating between benign and axillary lymph node (ALN) metastasis in breast …

Dual-modal computer-assisted evaluation of axillary lymph node metastasis in breast cancer patients on both real-time elastography and B-mode ultrasound

Q Zhang, J Suo, W Chang, J Shi, M Chen - European Journal of Radiology, 2017 - Elsevier
Purpose To propose a computer-assisted method for quantifying the hardness of an axillary
lymph node on real-time elastography (RTE) and its morphology on B-mode ultrasound; and …