Table 3.

Summary of ultrasound elastography studies assessing malignancy of masses in the liver, breast, thyroid, kidney, prostate, and lymph nodes.

	No.					Sensitivity	Specificity
	Patients	Lesions	Malignant	Technique	Parameter	(%)	(%)	Author
Liver	384	448	228	1D-TE pSWE	__	85	84	Ma et al., 2013
	134	134	41	pSWE	SWV (m/s)	83.3	77.9	Guo et al., 2015
					SWV ratio	59.6	77.3
	373	373	290	pSWE	Stif. value	74	84	Lu et al., 2015
					Stif. ratio	82	28
	117	117	__	pSWE	SWV (m/s)	97	66	Goya et al., 2015
	140	154	112	pSWE	SWV (m/s)	81.3	92.9	Zhang et al., 2015
	81	62	24	pSWE	SWV (m/s)	no stat. dif.	no stat. dif.	Heide et al., 2010
	75	79	36	pSWE	SWV (m/s)	no stat. dif.	no stat. dif.	Frulio et al., 2013
Breast	143	143	48	SE	EI/B-mode ratio	98	87	Barr, 2015
	100	114	33	SE	ES	69.7	95.1	Mohey et al., 2014
	370	401	155	SE	ES	72.3	91.9	Zhi et al., 2012
	1874	2087	667	SE	SR	88	83	Sadigh et al., 2012
	395	450	131	SE	EI/B-mode ratio	98	72
	4266	4713	__	SE	ES	83	84	Gong et al., 2011
					SR	88	81
	201	201	116	SE	SR	95	74	Fischer et al., 2011
	208	251	54	SE	EI/B-mode ratio	100	95	Barr, 2010
	135	111	52	SE	ES	86.5	89.8	Itoh et al., 2006
	143	143	48	SWI	SWV (m/s)	93	89	Barr, 2015
	82	83	38	SWI	max. stif.	94	73	Feldmann et al., 2015
	2424	2584	1244	SWI	max. stif. (kPa)	93	81	Chen et al., 2014
					mean stif. (kPa)	94	71
Thyroid	530	639	153	SE	ES and/or stif. index	92	90	Bojunga et al., 2010
	676	703	217	SE	ES (4 point)	65.4	58.2	Moon et al., 2012
					ES (5 point)	15.7	95.3
	706	912	86	SE	ES	80.2	70.3	Azizi et al., 2013
	446	498	126	SE	ES	81	62	Trimboli et al., 2012
	2147	2436	745	pSWE	SWV (m/s)	80	85	Zhan et al., 2015
	1451	1617	__	pSWE	YM (kPa)	86.3	89.5	Dong et al., 2015
	35	35	11	2D-SWE	YM (kPa)	82	88	Samir et al., 2015
Kidney	60	60	36	SWI	SWV (m/s)	88	54	Goya et al., 2015
	42	42	12	SWI	SWV (m/s)	no stat. dif.	no stat. dif.	Guo et al., 2014
	71	71	42	SE	Strain Index Value	82.9	82.7	Onur, et al., 2015
	47	47	19	SE	SR	95	100	Tan et al.,2013
Prostate	184	1040*	129*	SWI	YM (kPa)	96	85	Correas et al., 2015
	87	1058*	79*	SWI	YM (kPa)	43	80.8	Woo et al., 2014
	53	318*	26*	SWI	YM (kPa)	96.2	96.2	Barr et al., 2012
	60	703*	141**	SWI	YM (kPa)	80.9	69.1	Boehm et al., 2015
	50	__	33**	SWI	YM (kPa)	90 (PSA<20)	88 (PSA<20)	Ahmad et al.,2103
						93(PSA>20)	93(PSA>20)
	508	__	__	SE	__	72	76	Zhang et al., 2014
	229	1374*	894*	SE	Color pattern pattern	51	72	Brock et al., 2011
	527	__	__	SE	Color pattern/SI	62	79	Teng et al., 2012
	2278	__	__	SE	__	71-82	60-95	Aboumarzouk et al., 2012
Lymph nodes	545	835	440	SE	ES	74	90	Ying et al., 2012
					SR	88	81
	89	89	52	SE	ES	88.4	35.1	Teng et al., 2012
					SR	98.1	64.9
	37	85	53	SE	ES	83	100	Alam et al., 2008
	50	53	23	SE	SR	83	96	Paterson et al., 2012
	46	55	31	2D-SWE	YM (kPa)	41.9	100	Bhatia et al., 2012
	100	100	57	pSWE	SWV (m/s)	78.9	74.4	Cheng et al., 2016

Elasticity score (ES), Strain ratio (SR), Shear Wave Imaging (SWI), Strain Index (SI), Young's Modulus (YM), Strain Elastography (SE)

* Peripheral zone sextants

** Number of patients

No data available = '—'.