Differentiating Benign from Malignant Cervical Lymph Nodes with Sonoelastography

Abdelmoniem Mahmoud Mohie-Eldine; Nabila El-Gazzar; Emad Mohamed Mashaly; Reda Abd-Elsameea Alarabawy; Sherief Abd-ElSalam

doi:doi:10.11648/j.ijmi.20170504.11

Differentiating Benign from Malignant Cervical Lymph Nodes with Sonoelastography

Abdelmoniem Mahmoud Mohie-Eldine, Nabila El-Gazzar, Emad Mohamed Mashaly, Reda Abd-Elsameea Alarabawy, Sherief Abd-ElSalam

Published in International Journal of Medical Imaging (Volume 5, Issue 4)

Received: 3 May 2017 Accepted: 3 June 2017 Published: 18 October 2017

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Abstract

In the clinical practice, there is many overlap in diagnostic criteria between benign and malignant lymph nodes by grayscale and Doppler sonography. This study was carried out on 30 patients who suffered from enlarged cervical lymph nodes examined with B-mode US, Doppler US and Sonoelastography in the Sonoelastography unit of the Radiology department of Tanta university hospitals to prospectively estimate the accuracy of sonoelastography in the differentiation between benign and malignant cervical lymph nodes. Sonoelastography had the highest sensitivity (92.1%), specificity (95.5%) and accuracy (93.3%) in the differentiation between benign and malignant cervical lymph nodes, so Sonoelastography is a promising technique that is easy and rapid non-invasive to perform and help identifying cervical lesions that are likely to be malignant to avoid hazards that found in tissue biopsy especially in patients with bleeding disorders.

Published in	International Journal of Medical Imaging (Volume 5, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijmi.20170504.11
Page(s)	42-46
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright	Copyright © The Author(s), 2017. Published by Science Publishing Group

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Lymphadenopathy, Elastography, Sonoelastography

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Abdelmoniem Mahmoud Mohie-Eldine; Nabila El-Gazzar; Emad Mohamed Mashaly; Reda Abd-Elsameea Alarabawy; Sherief Abd-ElSalam. Differentiating Benign from Malignant Cervical Lymph Nodes with Sonoelastography. Int. J. Med. Imaging 2017, 5(4), 42-46. doi: 10.11648/j.ijmi.20170504.11

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Abdelmoniem Mahmoud Mohie-Eldine, Nabila El-Gazzar, Emad Mohamed Mashaly, Reda Abd-Elsameea Alarabawy, Sherief Abd-ElSalam. Differentiating Benign from Malignant Cervical Lymph Nodes with Sonoelastography. Int J Med Imaging. 2017;5(4):42-46. doi: 10.11648/j.ijmi.20170504.11

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Abdelmoniem Mahmoud Mohie-Eldine

Radiological Department, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt
Nabila El-Gazzar

Tropical Medicine Departement, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt
Emad Mohamed Mashaly

Radiological Department, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt
Reda Abd-Elsameea Alarabawy

Radiological Department, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt
Sherief Abd-ElSalam

Tropical Medicine Departement, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt

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Abdelmoniem Mahmoud Mohie-Eldine; Nabila El-Gazzar; Emad Mohamed Mashaly; Reda Abd-Elsameea Alarabawy; Sherief Abd-ElSalam. Differentiating Benign from Malignant Cervical Lymph Nodes with Sonoelastography. Int. J. Med. Imaging 2017, 5(4), 42-46. doi: 10.11648/j.ijmi.20170504.11

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Abdelmoniem Mahmoud Mohie-Eldine, Nabila El-Gazzar, Emad Mohamed Mashaly, Reda Abd-Elsameea Alarabawy, Sherief Abd-ElSalam. Differentiating Benign from Malignant Cervical Lymph Nodes with Sonoelastography. Int J Med Imaging. 2017;5(4):42-46. doi: 10.11648/j.ijmi.20170504.11

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