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The Preciseness in Diagnosing Thyroid Malignant Nodules Using Shear-Wave Elastography
Our study aimed to identify more accurate results about the diagnostic role of shear-wave elastography (SWE) for thyroid malignant nodules through a meta-analysis. Potential articles were searched in PubMed, Embase, and the Cochrane Library databases. Overall sensitivity and specificity with 95% con...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5806774/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29391387 http://dx.doi.org/10.12659/MSM.904703 |
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author | Chang, Na Zhang, Xianchao Wan, Wenjing Zhang, Chengqi Zhang, Xianqi |
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description | Our study aimed to identify more accurate results about the diagnostic role of shear-wave elastography (SWE) for thyroid malignant nodules through a meta-analysis. Potential articles were searched in PubMed, Embase, and the Cochrane Library databases. Overall sensitivity and specificity with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) was used to represent the diagnostic accuracy of SWE. Summary receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was constructed to illustrate the results. In addition, χ(2) and I(2) tests were performed to assess heterogeneity. A value of p≤0.05 indicated significant heterogeneity. All the analysis was conducted in Meta-DiSc version 1.4 software. Twenty studies were included in the analysis. There were a total of 2,907 patients and 3,397 thyroid nodules included in the meta-analysis. Overall sensitivity and specificity were 0.68 (95% CI: 0.66–0.70) and 0.85 (95% CI: 0.84–0.87), respectively. The results showed the area under curve (AUC) was 0.9041, suggesting high accuracy of SWE for differentiating benign and malignant thyroid nodules. SWE showed high accuracy in identifying thyroid malignant nodules, suggesting it could serve as a diagnostic biomarker in thyroid nodules. |
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spelling | pubmed-58067742018-02-13 The Preciseness in Diagnosing Thyroid Malignant Nodules Using Shear-Wave Elastography Chang, Na Zhang, Xianchao Wan, Wenjing Zhang, Chengqi Zhang, Xianqi Med Sci Monit Hypothesis Our study aimed to identify more accurate results about the diagnostic role of shear-wave elastography (SWE) for thyroid malignant nodules through a meta-analysis. Potential articles were searched in PubMed, Embase, and the Cochrane Library databases. Overall sensitivity and specificity with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) was used to represent the diagnostic accuracy of SWE. Summary receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was constructed to illustrate the results. In addition, χ(2) and I(2) tests were performed to assess heterogeneity. A value of p≤0.05 indicated significant heterogeneity. All the analysis was conducted in Meta-DiSc version 1.4 software. Twenty studies were included in the analysis. There were a total of 2,907 patients and 3,397 thyroid nodules included in the meta-analysis. Overall sensitivity and specificity were 0.68 (95% CI: 0.66–0.70) and 0.85 (95% CI: 0.84–0.87), respectively. The results showed the area under curve (AUC) was 0.9041, suggesting high accuracy of SWE for differentiating benign and malignant thyroid nodules. SWE showed high accuracy in identifying thyroid malignant nodules, suggesting it could serve as a diagnostic biomarker in thyroid nodules. International Scientific Literature, Inc. 2018-02-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5806774/ /pubmed/29391387 http://dx.doi.org/10.12659/MSM.904703 Text en © Med Sci Monit, 2018 This work is licensed under Creative Common Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) ) |
spellingShingle | Hypothesis Chang, Na Zhang, Xianchao Wan, Wenjing Zhang, Chengqi Zhang, Xianqi The Preciseness in Diagnosing Thyroid Malignant Nodules Using Shear-Wave Elastography |
title | The Preciseness in Diagnosing Thyroid Malignant Nodules Using Shear-Wave Elastography |
title_full | The Preciseness in Diagnosing Thyroid Malignant Nodules Using Shear-Wave Elastography |
title_fullStr | The Preciseness in Diagnosing Thyroid Malignant Nodules Using Shear-Wave Elastography |
title_full_unstemmed | The Preciseness in Diagnosing Thyroid Malignant Nodules Using Shear-Wave Elastography |
title_short | The Preciseness in Diagnosing Thyroid Malignant Nodules Using Shear-Wave Elastography |
title_sort | preciseness in diagnosing thyroid malignant nodules using shear-wave elastography |
topic | Hypothesis |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5806774/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29391387 http://dx.doi.org/10.12659/MSM.904703 |
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