Evaluation of Outcomes Shear Wave Elastography of Iraqi Women to Solid Breast Lesions

Abstract

Background: Breast lesions have the potential to be assessed and characterised using elastography, an imaging technique that assesses the elastic characteristics or hardness of tissues. As external pressure is applied, elastography records minute tissue displacements. Objective: This paper aims to Evaluate of outcomes shear wave elastography of Iraqi women to solid breast lesions. Patient and method: A descriptive study was conducted on breast patients over the age of 20 years for Iraqi women. This research paper contributed to a evaluate of outcomes of shear wave elastography of Iraqi women to solid breast lesions. This study showed the distribution of patients in Baghdad-Iraq, from the 13^th of June 2021 to the 23^rd of March 2022. Collected data has conducted using the SPSS program. Results and discussion: The elasticity (stiffness) of aberrant tumours is compared to normal tissues. Breast cancer tissue tends to be more fragile than normal breast tissue. Shear waves are mechanical waves that move extremely quickly through tissue. ROC curve showing the diagnostic performance of shear wave elastography for the subset of lesions and the degree of sensitivity and selectivity of elastography for differentiating among malignant and benign tumors at various cut-off settings where it shown the raise of sensitivity’s degree to the patients and as well as ROC shown the accuracy of shear wave performance. Our study found that the raise of malignant patients in comparison with benign patients were found 103.74 mean and 37.22 SD for elasticity as well as raise of malignant patients in comparison with benign patients were found to be 16.62 mean and 11.22 SD for Stiff ratio by final HPE evaluation. Conclusion: To conclude, our study found that most women have been injured within above 30 years, where it can be struggle them with symptoms which it got injured with women above 30 years. Also, our paper has found that most of the Malignant and Benign were distributed in 30 years patients, which Ductal carcinoma in situ, Intraductal papilloma, and Invasive lobular Carcinoma being the most impacted and injured to the women. Furthermore, our study noticed that Malignant lesions was the most impacted on the women throughout the evaluation of stiff ratio and elasticity for breast patients.