Diagnostic Performance and Additional Value of Elastosonography in Focal Breast Lesions: Statistical Correlation between Size-Dependant Strain Index Measurements, Multimodality-BI-RADS Score, and Histopathology in a Clinical Routine Setting

<table>The right side of the figure shows an ultrasonographic image (B-mode) of a 56-year-old female patient suffering from an invasive ductal carcinoma. The first region of interest (ROI A) is positioned in the center of the hypoechoic tumor and was compared with the reference ROI B, which contains the normal glandular tissue. On the left side of the image, the stiffness of the different tissues is color-coded and superimposed on the grayscale image. The carcinoma is less compressible than the surrounding normal tissue. The strain index in this case was 14.3, suggesting malignancy.</table>

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Figure 2: Diagnostic Performance and Additional Value of Elastosonography in Focal Breast Lesions: Statistical Correlation between Size-Dependant Strain Index Measurements, Multimodality-BI-RADS Score, and Histopathology in a Clinical Routine Setting 

Figure 2 | Diagnostic Performance and Additional Value of Elastosonography in Focal Breast Lesions: Statistical Correlation between Size-Dependant Strain Index Measurements, Multimodality-BI-RADS Score, and Histopathology in a Clinical Routine Setting 