Contrast-enhanced ultrasound image sequences based on radiomics analysis for diagnosis of metastatic cervical lymph nodes from thyroid cancer.

Background: Thyroid cancer (TC) prone to cervical lymph node (CLN) metastasis both before and after surgery. Ultrasonography (US) is the first-line imaging method for evaluating the thyroid gland and CLNs. However, this assessment relies mainly on the subjective judgment of the sonographer and is very much dependent on the sonographer's experience.

Multimodal ultrasound imaging of primary thyroid schwannoma: A case report.

Rationale: Primary schwannoma of the thyroid gland is very rare, and its preoperative diagnosis is difficult.

Patient Concerns: We report the case of a thyroid nodule in an 18-year-old woman, who presented with a mass in her left neck with stiffness and normal thyroid function. However, the patient complained of numbness in her left upper extremity, and ultrasound (US) features were suspicious of malignancy.

Partially cystic thyroid cancer on conventional and elastographic ultrasound: a retrospective study and a machine learning-assisted system.

Background: Thyroid carcinoma constitutes the vast majority of all thyroid cancer, most of which is the solid nodule type. No previous studies have examined combining both conventional and elastic sonography to evaluate the diagnostic performance of partially cystic thyroid cancer (PCTC). This retrospective study was designed to evaluate differentiation of PCTC from benign partially cystic nodules with a machine learning-assisted system based on ultrasound (US) and elastography.

[The Characteristics of Ultrasonography and Thermal Tomography in Various Molecular Subtypes of Breast Cancer].

Objective: To explore the relationship between the imaging features of ultrasonography and thermal tomography and molecular subtypes of breast cancer.

Methods: 404 female breast cancer patients with complete imaging data and pathological findings from January 2014 to June 2017 were reviewed in the West China Hospital of Sichuan University. Breast cancer pathological molecules were classified into Luminal A like type, Luminal B like type, human epidermal growth receptor-2 (HER-2) overexpression type and Basal like type according to the expression of various immune markers.

[Breast Thermal Tomography and High Frequency Ultrasound Imaging in Predicting Breast Cancer: a Preliminary Study].

Objective: To determine the clinical value of breast thermal tomography and high frequency ultrasound imaging in diagnosing breast cancer.

Methods: Breast thermal tomography and high frequency ultrasound imaging were performed in 298 patients with breast lumps. The results were compared with pathological diagnosis.

Value of contrast-enhanced ultrasonography in the differential diagnosis of enlarged lymph nodes: a meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy studies.

Objective: To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of contrast-enhanced ultrasonography (CEUS) in differentiating between benign and malignant enlarged lymph nodes using meta-analysis.

Materials And Methods: Pubmed, Embase, SCI and Cochrane databases were searched for studies (up to September 1, 2014) reporting the diagnostic performance of CEUS in discriminating between benign and malignant lymph nodes. Inclusion criteria were: prospective study; histopathology as the reference standard; and sufficient data to construct 2?2 contingency tables.

[The perfusion pattern of lymphadenopathy in contrast-enhanced ultrasonograph. under different reference conditions ].

Objective: To determine the perfusion pattern of lymphadenopathy in contrast-enhanced ultrasonography (CEUS) under different reference conditions.

Methods: The CEUS perfusion patterns of 78 superficial lymph node lesions were compared with their pathology results. Time-intensity curves were used for comparison between benign and malignant lymph nodes.

[Contrast-enhanced ultrasonography findings for papillary thyroid carcinoma and its pathological bases ].

Objective: To investigate the findings of contrast enhanced ultrasound for papillary thyroid carcinoma and its pathological bases.

Methods: Seventy two (72) patients with thyroid nodules underwent routine conventional ultrasound and color Doppler examination, and 86 nodules with TI RADS 3 were examined by contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS . Histopathological examination was kept as standard reference and the findings of CEUS were analyzed.

Curcumin cytotoxicity is enhanced by PTEN disruption in colorectal cancer cells.

Aim: To investigate the effects of phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome 10 (PTEN) deficiency on the cytotoxicity of chemotherapeutic agents toward colorectal cancer cells.

Methods: PTEN-deficient colorectal cancer (CRC) cells were generated by human somatic cell gene targeting using the adeno-associated virus system. The cytotoxic effects of compounds including curcumin, 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), dihydroartemisinin (DHA), irinotecan (CPT-11) and oxaliplatin (OXA) on cancer cells were determined using the MTT assay.