The Role of Ultrasound and Shear-Wave Elastography in Evaluation of Cervical Lymph Nodes.
Jan HeřmanZuzana SedlackovaTomáš FürstJaromír VachutkaRichard SalzmanJaroslav VomáčkaMiroslav HermanPublished in: BioMed research international (2019)
A combination of epidemiologic and classic ultrasound parameters can discriminate between malignant and benign lymph nodes with satisfactory sensitivity and specificity. Examining the stiffness of lymph nodes by means of SWE does not add much new predictive power.