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J Cancer Sci Ther
ISSN: 1948-5956 JCST, an open access journal
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/1948-5956.C1.082Value of sonoelastography scoring and strain ratio in assessment of malignant breast solid masses
Doaa Ibrahim Hasan
Zagazig University, Egypt
Aim & Purpose
: To detected sonoelastography appearance variation in different pathological types of the malignant solid
breast masses.
Patient & Methods
: From April 2014 to March 2015, 85 consecutive women presented by solid breast lesions that were
confirmed at core needle biopsy to be invasive cancers. A total of 79 histopathologically confirmed malignant lesions as we
excluded 6 cases. B-mode sonographic and sonoelastographic images were obtained for each lesion, then elasticity scores
had been determined with a 5-point scoring method. Also strain indices of the lesions were calculated. The findings were
compared with histopathologic findings. The diagnostic performances of the elasticity scoring and strain index methods were
determined.
Results
: Hard malignant lesions (score 4.5) were 73 (92.4%) and soft malignant (score 2.3) were 6 cases (7.5%). No statistically
significant size difference between tumors classified as true-positive (hard appearing malignant on sonoelastography) and
those classified as false-negative (soft appearing malignant on sonoelastography). The mean strain ratio for the hard malignant
group was 17.867±0.96, while the mean strain ratio of malignant soft lesions was 4.458±0.721, significant difference was found
between the two groups (P<0.05) and statistically significant association between histopathologic results and sonoelastographic
scores (P-value<0.001).
Conclusion
: Malignant solid masses
sonoelastography results not affected by tumor size but great variation according to its
pathological type.