• Medicine · Nov 2021

    Diagnostic performance of quantitative and qualitative elastography for the differentiation of benign and malignant cervical lymph nodes: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis.

    • Zhaohua Jia, Meijing Qu, Lipeng Sun, and Hui Wang.
    • Ultrasound Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, China.
    • Medicine (Baltimore). 2021 Nov 24; 100 (47): e27958e27958.

    BackgroundStudies have shown inconsistent results regarding the diagnostic performance of quantitative and qualitative elastography for the differentiation of benign and malignant cervical lymph nodes. This meta-analysis aimed to estimate the diagnostic performance of ultrasound elastography in patients with cervical lymphadenopathy.MethodsWe will search PubMed, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, and Chinese biomedical databases from their inceptions to the May 30, 2021, without language restrictions. Two authors will independently carry out searching literature records, scanning titles and abstracts, full texts, collecting data, and assessing risk of bias. Review Manager 5.2 and Stata14.0 software will be used for data analysis.ResultsThis systematic review will determine the accuracy of shear wave elastography and strain elastography in the differential diagnosis between benign and malignant cervical lymph nodes.ConclusionIts findings will provide helpful evidence for the accuracy of shear wave elastography and strain elastography in the differential diagnosis between benign and malignant cervical lymph nodes.Systematic Review RegistrationINPLASY202150109.Copyright © 2021 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

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