Efficacy of thyroid ultrasound elastography in differential diagnosis of small thyroid nodules

M Dighe, S Luo, C Cuevas, Y Kim - European Journal of Radiology, 2013 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: To explore the efficacy of thyroid ultrasound (US) elastography in differential
diagnosis of small thyroid nodules. METHODS: This HIPAA-compliant study was approved …

Differential Diagnosis of Thyroid Nodules with US Elastography Using Carotid Artery Pulsation1

M Dighe, U Bae, ML Richardson, TJ Dubinsky… - Radiology, 2008 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose: To explore the sensitivity and specificity of ultrasonographic (US) elastography
using carotid arterial pulsation as the compression source for differential diagnosis of thyroid …

Comparative effectiveness of elastographic and B-mode ultrasound criteria for diagnostic discrimination of thyroid nodules: a meta-analysis

SA Razavi, TA Hadduck, G Sadigh… - American Journal of …, 2013 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this article is to present, through systematic review of recent
literature, a comparative effectiveness analysis of ultrasound elastography versus B-mode …

Ultrasound scoring in combination with ultrasound elastography for differentiating benign and malignant thyroid nodules

J Shao, Y Shen, J Lü, J Wang - Clinical Endocrinology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The aim of this study was to evaluate the value of ultrasound scores obtained by
conventional ultrasonography and ultrasound elastography in the differentiation of benign …

Real‐time ultrasound elastography for differentiation of benign and malignant thyroid nodules: a meta‐analysis

J Sun, J Cai, X Wang - Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives The clinical challenge of managing thyroid nodules nowadays is to diagnose the
minority of malignant disease. Real‐time ultrasound elastography, which can measure …

Ultrasound elastography for thyroid nodules: a reliable study?

JK Kim, JH Baek, JH Lee, JL Kim, EJ Ha, TY Kim… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2012 - Elsevier
The aims were to determine the reliability of ultrasound elastography (USE) and the factors
related to reliability. One hundred six solid thyroid nodules in 78 consecutive patients were …

Real-time ultrasound elastography-a new tool for diagnosing thyroid nodules

M Gietka-Czernel, M Kochman… - Endokrynologia …, 2010 - journals.viamedica.pl
Introduction: Real-time elastography (RTE) is a non-invasive ultrasound method of
estimation of tissue stiffness by measuring the degree of local tissue displacements after a …

[HTML][HTML] Role of ultrasound elastography in assessment of indeterminate thyroid nodules

LAM Habib, AM Abdrabou, EAS Geneidi… - The Egyptian Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Purpose To evaluate the role of ultrasound elastography as an additional technique in
differentiating US indeterminate thyroid nodules in order to decrease the number of tissue …

Ultrasound elastography using carotid artery pulsation in the differential diagnosis of sonographically indeterminate thyroid nodules

WJ Choi, JS Park, HR Koo, SY Kim… - American Journal of …, 2015 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic performance of gray-
scale ultrasound and a new method of thyroid ultrasound elastography using carotid artery …

Comparison analysis between conventional ultrasonography and ultrasound elastography of thyroid nodules

C Shuzhen - European journal of radiology, 2012 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: To compare the effectiveness of conventional ultrasonography and ultrasound
elastography in differential diagnosis of thyroid nodular diseases. METHODS: 244 patients …