The Role of Ultrasound and Shear-Wave Elastography in Evaluation of Cervical Lymph Nodes

Figure 3

Maximum stiffness is significantly different among the various diagnoses. Malignant findings tend to exhibit higher maximum stiffness with a notable exception of lymphoma (the x-axis: benign lymph nodes; tuberculosis or sarcoidosis; metastases of squamous cell carcinoma; lymphoma; metastases of papillary carcinoma of the thyroid; other metastases).