Utility of ultrasound elastography to differentiate benign from malignant cervical lymph nodes

Vikrant Kanagaraju; A V B Rakshith; B Devanand; Radhamani Rajakumar

doi:10.4103/jmu.jmu_72_19

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Utility of ultrasound elastography to differentiate benign from malignant cervical lymph nodes

Vikrant Kanagaraju A V B Rakshith B Devanand Radhamani Rajakumar

Year: 2019 Journal: Journal of Medical Ultrasound Vol: 28 (2)Pages: 92-92 Publisher: Elsevier BV

DOI: 10.4103/jmu.jmu_72_19

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Abstract

Elastography has high diagnostic accuracy in differentiating benign and malignant cervical LNs and can be potentially useful in selecting the LN with high probability of malignancy, on which fine-needle aspiration cytology/biopsy can be performed.

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Medicine Elastography Malignancy Receiver operating characteristic Echogenicity Cervical lymph nodes Radiology Ultrasound Cutoff Acoustic radiation force Area under the curve Confidence interval Nuclear medicine Pathology Metastasis Internal medicine Cancer

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