Is there a real diagnostic impact of elastosonography and contrast-enhanced ultrasonography in the management of thyroid nodules?

作     者：Massimo GIUSTI Davide ORLANDI Giulia MELLE Barbara MASSA Enzo SILVESTRI Francesco MINUTO Gianni TURTULICI 

作者机构：Endocrine UnitSan Martino University Hospital Radiology UnitEvangelico Hospital Cytopathology and Pathology UnitSan Martino University Hospital 

出 版 物：《Journal of Zhejiang University-Science B(Biomedicine & Biotechnology)》 (浙江大学学报（英文版）B辑（生物医学与生物技术）)

年 卷 期：2013年第14卷第3期

页      面：195-206页

核心收录：

学科分类：0831[工学-生物医学工程（可授工学、理学、医学学位）] 100207[医学-影像医学与核医学] 1002[医学-临床医学] 08[工学] 1010[医学-医学技术（可授医学、理学学位）] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Thyroid nodules Cytology Histology Ultrasonography Elastosonography Contrast-enhanced ultrasonography 

摘      要：Ultrasonography(US) and the new applications US elastography(USE) and contrast-enhanced US(CEUS) are used in the screening of thyroid nodules,for which fine-needle aspiration biopsy(FNAB) is the best single diagnostic *** aim of the study was to compare the sensitivity,specificity,positive predictive value(PPV),and accuracy of the four examinations in nodules with cytological and histological *** study used data from US,FNAB,USE(elasticity(ELX 2/1) index),and CEUS(Peak index and time to peak(TTP) index) evaluated in 73 thyroid nodules in 63 consecutive patients likely to undergo ***-histological correlation was available for 38 *** correlation emerged between nodule size and cytological results.A significant(P=0.03) positive correlation between cumulative US findings and cytological results was *** addition,significant correlations between cumulative US findings and cytology(P=0.02) and between cumulative US findings and histology(P0.0001) were *** showed the best specificity and PPV,and FNAB the best *** was no significant difference in the ELX 2/1 index,Peak index,or TTP index among nodules subdivided according to cytological *** significant correlation was found between ELX 2/1 index,Peak index,and TTP index,on the one hand,and nodule size,US cumulative findings,cytology,and histology on the other *** sensitivity of the ELX 2/1 index was high,but its specificity was very *** accuracy and PPV of USE were lower than those of the other *** the correlation between Peak index and cumulative US findings reached a value close to *** ultimate aim is to minimise unnecessary *** and FNAB continue to play a central diagnostic *** use of a US score showed high specificity and *** specificity of FNAB was low in this selected series because of the numbers of indeterminate cytological *** and CEUS are innovative techniques that need to be standa