Clinical Utility of Contrast-enhanced Ultrasound for the Diagnosis of Lymphadenopathy

This meta-analysis aimed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of contrast-enhanced ultrasonography (CEUS) in identifying lymphazdenopathy. PubMed, Web of Science, Embase and the Cochrane Library were searched for relevant articles through September 2020. A total of 16 articles, which included 1787 participants, were analyzed. The summary sensitivity, specificity, positive likelihood ratio (LR), negative LR and diagnostic odds ratio of CEUS for diagnosing lymphadenopathy were 0.88 (0.86 –0.90), 0.90 (0.88–0.92), 6.04 (3.67–9.95), 0.15 (0.10–0.21) and 47.38 (23.45–95.66), respectively.

Source: Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology - January 21, 2021 Category: Radiology Authors: Siyang Huang, Yunuo Zhao, Xian Jiang, Nan Lin, Mingxuan Zhang, Hang Wang, Aiping Zheng, Xuelei Ma Tags: Review Source Type: research