Kawahara Yu, Togawa Yaei, Yamamoto Yosuke, Wakabayashi Seiichiro, Matsue Hiroyuki, Inafuku Kazuhiro
Department of Dermatology, Kimitsu Chuo Hospital, Kisarazu, Japan.
Department of Dermatology, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan.
J Dermatol. 2020 Nov;47(11):1312-1316. doi: 10.1111/1346-8138.15545. Epub 2020 Aug 13.
We used 2-D shear wave elastography to quantify lymph node hardness, from the shear wave velocity, to determine the presence or absence of metastatic lymphadenopathy in the inguinal lymph nodes of five patients with malignant melanoma and squamous cell carcinoma. The shear wave velocity accurately identified all cases of metastasis confirmed by histology, compared with two false-positive and one false-negative finding with positron emission tomography/computed tomography. 2-D shear wave elastography would be useful to evaluate inguinal lymph node metastasis.
我们使用二维剪切波弹性成像技术,通过剪切波速度来量化淋巴结硬度,以确定5例恶性黑色素瘤和鳞状细胞癌患者腹股沟淋巴结中是否存在转移性淋巴结病。与正电子发射断层扫描/计算机断层扫描出现的2例假阳性和1例假阴性结果相比,剪切波速度准确识别了所有经组织学证实的转移病例。二维剪切波弹性成像技术在评估腹股沟淋巴结转移方面将很有用。