Semi-quantitative Analysis of EBUS Elastography as a Feasible Approach in Diagnosing Mediastinal and Hilar Lymph Nodes of Lung Cancer Patients

Scientific Reports
Honghai MaJian Hu

Abstract

This study aimed to semi-quantitatively evaluate the elastographic imaging color distribution of mediastinal and hilar lymph nodes (LNs), and explored its utility in helping define malignant and benign LNs for lung cancer patients. We prospectively collected patients who underwent preoperative mediastinal staging of suspected lung cancer by EBUS-TBNA. We analyzed the elastography color distribution of each LN and calculated the blue color proportion (BCP). The LN elastographic patterns were compared with the final EBUS-TBNA pathological results. A receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was constructed to evaluate the diagnostic value of BCP. We sampled and analyzed 79 LNs from 60 patients. The average BCP in malignant LNs was remarkably higher than that in benign LNs (57.1% versus 30.8%, P < 0.001). The area under the ROC curve (AUC) for the BCP was 0.86 (95% CI: 0.78-0.94). The best cutoff BCP for differentiating between benign and malignant LNs was determined as 36.7%. All the 16 LNs (20.3%) with a BCP lower than 27.9% were diagnosed as benign tissues. Our study suggests that elastography is a feasible technique that may safely help to predict LN metastasis during EBUS-TBNA. We found a clear BCP cutoff value to help de...Continue Reading

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