Quantitative Shear Wave Velocity Measurement on Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse Elastography for Differential Diagnosis between Benign and Malignant Thyroid Nodules A Meta-analysis》.pdf

Ultrasound in Med. Biol., Vol. -, No. -, pp. 1–9, 2015 Copyright 2015 World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine Biology Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0301-5629/$ - see front matter /10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2015.08.003 d Review Article QUANTITATIVE SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY MEASUREMENT ON ACOUSTIC RADIATION FORCE IMPULSE ELASTOGRAPHY FOR DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS BETWEEN BENIGN AND MALIGNANT THYROID NODULES: A META-ANALYSIS BO-JI LIU,* DAN-DAN LI,* HUI-XIONG XU,*yz LE-HANG GUO,* YI-FENG ZHANG,* JUN-MEI XU,* CHANG LIU,* LIN-NA LIU,* XIAO-LONG LI,* XIAO-HONG XU,y SHEN QU,zx and MINGZHAO XINGz{ *Department of Medical Ultrasound, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China; y Department of Ultrasound, Guangdong Medical College Affiliated Hospital, Zhanjiang, China; z Thyroid Institute, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China; x Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China; and { Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes Metabolism, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA (Received 7 April 2015; revised 27 July 2015; in final form 4 August 2015) Abstract—The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic performance of quantitative shear wave velocity