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Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

Table 4 Showing diagnostic performance of SWE parameters

From: Conventional ultrasound, color Doppler, TI-RADS, and shear wave elastography for thyroid nodule differentiation: a study of efficacy compared with the histopathology results

Elasticity indices (kPa)

AUC%

(95% CI)

p value

Cutoff values (kPa)

Sensitivity (%)

Specificity (%)

Emean

93.2 (88.2–98.2)

< 0.0001

34.35

84.8

83.3

ER

96.3 (93.3–99.4)

< 0.0001

2.65

90.9

89.4

  1. AUC area under the curve, 95% CI 95% confidence interval
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