Diagnostic performance of quantitative shear wave elastography in the evaluation of solid breast masses: Determination of the most discriminatory parameter

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 202, Issue 3, 2014, Pages E328-E336

  Au, Frederick Wing Fai ^a   Ghai, Sandeep ^a   Moshonov, Hadas ^a   Kahn, Harriette ^b   Brennan, Cressida ^a   Dua, Hemi ^a   Crystal, Pavel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast; Quantitative shear wave elastography; Solid masses; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; AGED; ALGORITHM; BREAST; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOLID MASSES; ULTRASOUND; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT; YOUNG MODULUS;

BREAST; QUANTITATIVE SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY; SOLID MASSES; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907880402     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.13.11693     Document Type: Article

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