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Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

Table 3 Relation between elastographic strain ratio and final histopathological diagnosis

From: B-mode ultrasound, color Doppler, and sonoelastography in differentiation between benign and malignant cervical lymph nodes with special emphasis on sonoelastography

 

Histopathology

P value

Benign

Malignant

N = 26

N = 58

Strain

ratio

(SR)

Range

Mean ± SD

Median/(IQR)

0.3–2.9

1.2 ± 0.7

1/(0.5–1.2)

1.6–4.2

3.3 ± 0.8

3.3/(2.5–3.8)

< 0.001*

  1. Mann–Whitney test for non-parametric quantitative data between the two groups
  2. Fisher exact test for qualitative data between the two groups
  3. *Significant level at P value < 0.05
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