Shear wave elastography in the evaluation of level VI lymph nodes in papillary thyroid carcinoma: combined with gray-scale ultrasound ex vivo

Table 2 SWE performance of central cervical lymph nodes

indexes	Pathological Results	All patients		Patients without Hashimoto’s thyroiditis
indexes	Pathological Results	mean ± Sd	p	mean ± Sd	p
E_mean (kPa)	(+)	22.97 ± 7.75	0.197	22.97 ± 7.75	0.030
E_mean (kPa)	(−)	19.87 ± 9.03	0.197	17.88 ± 8.44	0.030
E_min (kPa)	(+)	13.29 ± 8.41	0.433	13.29 ± 8.41	0.809
E_min (kPa)	(−)	14.88 ± 7.25	0.433	13.80 ± 7.44	0.809
E_max (kPa)	(+)	32.72 ± 10.21	0.016	32.72 ± 10.21	< 0.001
E_max (kPa)	(−)	25.08 ± 11.80	0.016	21.98 ± 9.85	< 0.001
E_SD (kPa)	(+)	4.75 ± 2.83	0.006	4.75 ± 2.83	0.001
E_SD (kPa)	(−)	2.55 ± 1.81	0.006	2.10 ± 1.44	0.001

The pathological result of (+) means metastatic and (−) means non-metastatic. Boldface indicates that p value is statistically significant

ISSN: 1471-2407