Open AccessPrediction of lymph node metastasis in rectal cancer: comparison between shear-wave elastography based ultrasomics and MRI
Author(s) -
Meng-Fei Xian,
Xin Zheng,
Jianbo Xu,
Xin Li,
Li-Da Chen,
Wei Wang
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
diagnostic and interventional radiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.754
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1305-3612
pISSN - 1305-3825
DOI - 10.5152/dir.2021.20031
Subject(s) - medicine , elastography , lymph node metastasis , colorectal cancer , radiology , shear (geology) , lymph node , metastasis , cancer , ultrasound , pathology , composite material , materials science
We aimed to explore the diagnostic efficiency of shear-wave elastography (SWE) ultrasomics in the preoperative prediction of lymph node (LN) metastasis in rectal cancer.