Table 2. The elastic modulus values of benign and malignant lesions when the “shell” was 1mm*.
Parameters | All lesions (n = 160) | Benign lesions (n = 100) | Malignant lesions (n = 60) | P value |
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Emax (kPa) | 76.05 (51.85–133.05) | 58.53 (41.89–73.50) | 165.97 (120.83–206.18) | 0.000 |
Emean (kPa) | 24.65 (18.09–33.89) | 20.11 (14.82–24.89) | 36.03 (28.71–44.57) | 0.000 |
Emin (kPa) | 4.73 (3.19–7.43) | 4.73 (3.50–7.29) | 4.75 (2.44–7.59) | 0.587 |
Esd (kPa) | 14.31 (8.24–22.30) | 10.51 (7.11–14.31) | 26.12 (20.77–30.52) | 0.000 |
*The values obtained over operator 1