Abstract:Objective To explore the diagnostic value of detecting the change of median nerve by ultra-high frequency shear wave elastography in carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). Methods From March 2017 to December 2019, a total of 108 patients with CTS diagnosed by clinical and neuroelectrophysiological examination were selected as CTS group, and 30 healthy subjects in our hospital were selected as control group. Two groups of subjects were examined by shear wave elastography, and the differences of parameters between the two groups were compared. Results Two dimensional ultrasound showed that DW and CSAW of median nerve in CTS group were significantly higher than those in control group (P?0.05). The results of shear wave elastography showed that WEmean, FEmean and FRatio in CTS group were significantly higher than those in control group (P?0.05). The receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curve was used to analyze the diagnostic efficacy of shear wave elastography in CTS, and the area under the ROC curve of WEmean, FEmean and FRatio was 0.830, 0.768 and 0.752 respectively, with the sensitivity being 83.17% (95% CI: 0.798, 0.907), 79.32% (95% CI: 0.712, 0.856), 72.38% (95% CI: 0.705, 0.822) while the specificity being 78.33% (95% CI: 0.831, 0.916), 82.15% (95% CI: 0.792, 0.879), 67.29% (95% CI: 0.710, 0.813) correspondingly. Conclusions The shear wave elastography can accurately reflect the stiffness of median nerve, which provides a noninvasive and simple way for clinical diagnosis of CTS and has a good clinical application value.