Individualized-thresholding Shear Wave Elastography combined with clinical factors improves specificity in discriminating breast masses.

CONCLUSIONS: The false-positive rate can be significantly reduced when applying two Emean cutoffs based on lesion size and depth. Moreover, the combination of age, Emean with two cutoffs and BI-RADS can further reduce the false negatives and false positives. Overall, this multifactorial analysis improves the specificity of ultrasound while maintaining a high sensitivity.
PMID: 33188991 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Breast - November 4, 2020 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Gu J, Polley EC, Ternifi R, Nayak R, Boughey JC, Fazzio RT, Fatemi M, Alizad A Tags: Breast Source Type: research