Evaluation of hepatic fibrosis by ultrasonic acoustic structure quantification.

ABSTRACT: To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of ultrasonic acoustic structure quantification (ASQ) for grading hepatic fibrosis/cirrhosis by comparing ultrasonographic features of regions of interest on ASQ images with the pathological characteristics of stage F0-F4 hepatic fibrosis cases.We retrospectively analyzed the medical records of 97 patients with chronic hepatitis who underwent ASQ evaluation at the Ultrasound Room of Dongfang Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital (Shanghai, China) between July 2012 and October 2013. Regions of interest on stored ASQ images were analyzed to obtain cm values on modes, averages, and standard deviations. Correlation analysis, principal component analysis (PCA), and multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) of the mean cm values with hepatic fibrosis staging were pe

SUBMITTER: Cheng L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6708933 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature