Shear wave elastography for breast masses is highly reproducible

DO Cosgrove, WA Berg, CJ Doré, DM Skyba… - European …, 2012 - Springer
… the intra- and interobserver reproducibility of shear wave elastography for breast masses. …
Because we used shear wave elastography, which measures the shear wave velocity in m/s …

Quantitative shear wave ultrasound elastography: initial experience in solid breast masses

A Evans, P Whelehan, K Thomson, D McLean… - Breast cancer …, 2010 - Springer
breast masses [15]. In this study, shear wave elastography had superior performance to …
for shear wave elastography because it is the most widely used and recognised classification of …

Breast lesions: quantitative diagnosis using ultrasound shear wave elastography—a systematic review and meta-analysis

B Liu, Y Zheng, G Huang, M Lin, Q Shan, Y Lu… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2016 - Elsevier
… The aim of this meta-analysis was to estimate the diagnostic performance of shear wave
elastography (SWE) in differentiating malignant from benign breast lesions. A literature search …

Added value of shear-wave elastography for evaluation of breast masses detected with screening US imaging

SH Lee, JM Chang, WH Kim, MS Bae, M Seo, HR Koo… - Radiology, 2014 - pubs.rsna.org
… were set for breast masses detected at diagnostic US, including palpable masses (376 of
939… screening US-detected breast masses because most breast masses detected at screening …

Diagnostic performances of shear wave elastography: which parameter to use in differential diagnosis of solid breast masses?

EJ Lee, HK Jung, KH Ko, JT Lee, JH Yoon - European radiology, 2013 - Springer
… is used in tissue characterisation, reflecting the hardness of a target lesion, and studies …
various breast lesions [1–3]. Although proven efficient, images of conventional elastography are …

[HTML][HTML] Use of shear wave elastography to differentiate benign and malignant breast lesions

DÇ Olgun, B Korkmazer, F Kılıç, AS Dikici… - Diagnostic and …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… the entire lesion because, in shear wave elastography, the values are obtained from a fixed
ROI, generally the stiffest peritumoral area. If it were important to explore lesion heterogeneity…

Differentiating benign from malignant solid breast masses: value of shear wave elastography according to lesion stiffness combined with greyscale ultrasound …

A Evans, P Whelehan, K Thomson, K Brauer… - British journal of …, 2012 - nature.com
… This study of 175 lesions confirms that the shear wave elastography parameter of mean
stiffness is highly accurate in differentiating between benign and malignant solid breast masses

Differentiation of benign from malignant solid breast masses: comparison of two-dimensional and three-dimensional shear-wave elastography

SH Lee, JM Chang, WH Kim, MS Bae, N Cho, A Yi… - European …, 2013 - Springer
… Two patients with breast implants and nine patients with large breast masses (over 4 cm)
were excluded as those masses were not fully included in the maximum range of SWE colour …

Comparison and combination of strain and shear wave elastography of breast masses for differentiation of benign and malignant lesions by quantitative assessment …

M Seo, HS Ahn, SH Park, JB Lee… - … of Ultrasound in …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… and shear wave elastography may improve diagnostic confidence and performance in
breast lesions. … of strain and shear wave elastography will be helpful to validate these results. …

[HTML][HTML] Breast mass characterization using shear wave elastography and ultrasound

S Hari, SB Paul, R Vidyasagar, E Dhamija… - Diagnostic and …, 2018 - Elsevier
… to better degrees of breast mass characterization. Shear wave elastography (SWE) helps
estimate tissue stiffness based on the acoustically generated shear wave propagation speed …