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
Elastography is a new diagnostic tool in the evaluation of thyroid nodules. Aim of the study
was to evaluate the accuracy and reliability of elastography in discriminating thyroid lesions …

Interobserver agreement for thyroid elastography: value of the quality factor

AC Calvete, JM Rodríguez… - … of Ultrasound in …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives The purpose of our study was to investigate interobserver agreement for thyroid
ultrasound elastography and to analyze the reproducibility of real‐time freehand …

The role of elastography in thyroid ultrasonography

F Magri, S Chytiris, L Chiovato - Current Opinion in Endocrinology …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Elasticity within a thyroid nodule, as evaluated by elastography, offers diagnostic results that
are equal to or sometimes even greater than that of conventional ultrasonography for the …

[HTML][HTML] The clinical value of ultrasound elastography in predicting malignant thyroid nodules

MA EL-Hariri, TFT Ali, MA Tawab, AMA Magid… - The Egyptian Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Objective This study aims to evaluate the clinical value of ultrasound elastography (USE) in
providing information on the nature of the thyroid nodules. This was performed using the …

[HTML][HTML] Elastography in distinguishing benign from malignant thyroid nodules

B Colakoglu, D Yildirim, D Alis, G Ucar… - Journal of clinical …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Aim: The aim of this study is to test the diagnostic success of strain elastography in
distinguishing benign from malignant thyroid nodules. Materials and Methods: The size …

Elastographic techniques of thyroid gland: current status

M Andrioli, L Persani - Endocrine, 2014 - Springer
Thyroid nodules are very common with malignancies accounting for about 5%. Fine-needle
biopsy is the most accurate test for thyroid cancer diagnosis. Elastography, a new …

Role of ultrasound elastography in prediction of malignancy in thyroid nodules

M Mansor, H Okasha, S Esmat, AM Hashem… - Endocrine …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Background. Ultrasonography is considered useful to distinguish between solid and cystic
thyroid nodules and to stratify a nodule's risk of cancer as low, medium, or high. Ultrasound …

[HTML][HTML] Application of real-time ultrasound elastography in diagnosing benign and malignant thyroid solid nodules

H Wang, S Zhang, X Xin, L Zhao, C Li… - Cancer biology & …, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective Real-time ultrasound elastography (US-E) is a helpful tool in diagnosing thyroid
nodules. This study aims to evaluate thyroid solid nodules, to establish the accuracy of US-E …

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 …

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 …