Performance of shear wave elastography for differentiation of benign and malignant solid breast masses.

OBJECTIVES: To perform a meta-analysis assessing the ability of shear wave elastography (SWE) to identify malignant breast masses. METHODS: PubMed, the Cochrane Library, and the ISI Web of Knowledge were searched for studies evaluating the accuracy of SWE for identifying malignant breast masses. The...

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Main Authors: Guiling Li, De-Wei Li, Yu-Xiao Fang, Yi-Jiang Song, Zhu-Jun Deng, Jian Gao, Yan Xie, Tian-Sheng Yin, Li Ying, Kai-Fu Tang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3799848?pdf=render