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- Title
Diagnostic value of commercially available shear-wave elastography for breast cancers: integration into BI-RADS classification with subcategories of category 4.
- Authors
Youk, Ji; Gweon, Hye; Son, Eun; Han, Kyung; Kim, Jeong-Ah
- Abstract
Objectives: To evaluate the diagnostic performance of shear-wave elastography (SWE) for breast cancer and to determine whether the integration of SWE into BI-RADS with subcategories of category 4 improves the diagnostic performance. Methods: A total of 389 breast masses (malignant 120, benign 269) in 324 women who underwent SWE before ultrasound-guided core biopsy or surgery were included. The qualitative SWE feature was assessed using a four-colour overlay pattern. Quantitative elasticity values including the lesion-to-fat elasticity ratio (E) were measured. Diagnostic performance of B-mode ultrasound, SWE, or their combined studies was compared using the area under the ROC curve (AUC). Results: AUC of E (0.952) was the highest among elasticity values (mean, maximum, and minimum elasticity, 0.949, 0.939, and 0.928; P = 0.04) and AUC of colour pattern was 0.947. AUC of combined studies was significantly higher than for a single study ( P < 0.0001). When adding SWE to category 4 lesions, lesions were dichotomised according to % of malignancy: 2.1 % vs. 43.2 % (category 4a) and 0 % vs. 100 % (category 4b) for E and 2.4 % vs. 25.8 % (category 4a) for colour pattern ( P < 0.05). Conclusions: Shear-wave elastography showed a good diagnostic performance. Adding SWE features to BI-RADS improved the diagnostic performance and may be helpful to stratify category 4 lesions. Key points: • Quantitative and qualitative shear-wave elastography provides further diagnostic information during breast ultrasound. • The elasticity ratio (E ) showed the best diagnostic performance in SWE. • E and four-colour overlay pattern significantly differed between benign and malignant lesions. • SWE features allowed further stratification of BI-RADS category 4 lesions.
- Subjects
SHEAR waves; BIOPSY; ONCOLOGIC surgery; PRECANCEROUS conditions; BREAST ultrasound
- Publication
European Radiology, 2013, Vol 23, Issue 10, p2695
- ISSN
0938-7994
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00330-013-2873-3