Use superb microvascular imaging to diagnose and predict metastatic cervical lymph nodes in patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) with metastatic lymph nodes (LNs) is closely associated with disease recurrence. This study accessed the value of superb microvascular imaging (SMI) in the diagnosis and prediction of metastatic cervical LNs in patients with PTC.

Methods

A total of 183 cervical LNs (103 metastatic and 80 reactive) from 116 patients with PTC were analysed. Metastatic cervical LNs were confirmed by pathology or/and cytology; reactive cervical LNs were confirmed by pathology or clinical features. The characteristic of conventional ultrasound (US) was extracted using univariate and multivariate analyses. The diagnostic performance of US and SMI were compared using the area under the receiver operating curve (AUC) with corresponding sensitivity and specif

SUBMITTER: Huang T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11108919 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature