title: Controlled Study of Traditional Ultrasound and Ultrasound Elastography on the Diagnosis of Breast Masses.
abstract: This study aims to explore the application values of traditional ultrasound (contrast ultrasound [CUS]) and ultrasound elastography (UE) (including gray-scale ultrasound, color Doppler flow imaging, spectral Doppler ultrasound) in the diagnosis of breast masses. Postoperative histopathological diagnosis was used as the gold standard. One hundred seventy benign and malignant breast lesions from our hospital were retrospectively analyzed. The sensitivity, specificity, and diagnostic accuracy differences of breast malignancy diagnosed by UE and CUS were compared. The sensitivity, specificity, and diagnostic accuracy rates of breast malignancy diagnosed by UE were 98.7%, 90.2%, and 97.7%, whereas that by CUS were 93.6%, 76.1%, and 78.9%, respectively. The specificity and diagnosis rate of UE in the differential diagnosis of malignant breast lesions are superior to those of CUS and have an important clinical value.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ultrasound, Zhumadian Central Hospital, Zhumadian, Henan, China.
authors.forename: Qin
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Ling
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Haojie
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Xiangkun
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Yajie
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Duan
authors.forename: Lingyao
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Zheng
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Liu
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D054459:Elasticity Imaging Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012372:ROC Curve; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016217:Ultrasonography, Mammary / Q000379:methods*; D055815:Young Adult