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Chinese Journal of Medical Ultrasound (Electronic Edition) ›› 2025, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (10): 969-975. doi: 10.3877/cma.j.issn.1672-6448.2025.10.010

• Superficial Parts Ultrasound • Previous Articles    

Value of multimodal ultrasound combined with immune-inflammatory markers in predicting axillary lymph node metastasis of breast cancer

Chenrui Pan, Bingjie Yang, Huiming Shen, Yingyan Wang, Jiahao Han, Jia Li()   

  1. Department of Ultrasound, Zhongda Hospital, Southeast University, Nanjing 210000, China
  • Received:2025-05-22 Online:2025-10-01 Published:2025-12-24
  • Contact: Jia Li

Abstract:

Objective

To evaluate the value of multimodal ultrasound features combined with immune-inflammatory markers in predicting axillary lymph node metastasis (ALNM) in breast cancer patients.

Methods

Data from patients with pathologically proven breast cancer between June 2023 to December 2024 at the Zhongda Hospital, Southeast University were reviewed. The multimodal ultrasound features, immune-inflammatory markers, and clinical data of the patients were retrospectively analyzed. The patients were divided into an ALNM group and a non-ALNM (NALNM) group based on axillary lymph node pathological results. The differences in multimodal ultrasound features and immune-inflammatory markers were compared between the ALNM and NALNM groups. The risk factors for ALNM in breast cancer patients were determined using univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were plotted to evaluate the predictive efficacy of multimodal ultrasound features and immunoinflammatory markers, alone and in combination, for ALNM.

Results

This study ultimately included 166 patients with breast cancer, of whom 58 were assigned to the ALNM group. Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that maximum lesion diameter (odds ratio [OR]=2.265; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.478, 3.471), posterior echo attenuation (OR=4.430; 95%CI: 1.683, 11.658), enhancement degree (OR=9.100; 95%CI: 1.420, 76.160), enlarged enhancement range (OR=4.138; 95%CI: 1.127, 15.190), and systemic immune inflammation index (OR=1.003; 95%CI: 1.000, 1.005) were independent factors predicting ALNM (P<0.05). The area under the ROC curve of multimodal ultrasound features combined with immune-inflammatory markers was 0.821 (95%CI: 0.754, 0.876), yielding an accuracy of 79.52%, sensitivity of 56.90%, and specificity of 91.67%. The DeLong test demonstrated that the combined diagnostic approach significantly outperformed individual features in diagnostic value (P<0.001).

Conclusion

The combination of multimodal ultrasound features and immune-inflammatory markers has high clinical value for early prediction of ALNM in breast cancer.

Key words: Brest cancer, Axillary lymph node metastasis, Multimodal ultrasound, Immune-inflammatory markers

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