Evaluation of Chronic Liver Disease: Does Ultrasound Scoring Criteria Help?

Table 4

Comparison with prior studies of validity of ultrasound score in the evaluation of chronic liver disease.

Study	Number of patients	Characteristics	Sensitivity	Specificity
Gaiani et al. [13] 1997	212	US scoring comprising of seven morphological and hemodynamic hepatic parameters	82%	79%
Hung et al. [8] 2003	210	US scoring comprising of liver surface, parenchyma, vascular structure, and spleen size	HBV-related cirrhosis 77.8%; HCV-related cirrhosis 82.4%	HBV-related cirrhosis 92.5%; HCV-related cirrhosis 70.7%
Choong et al. [15] 2012	156	Three hepatic features assessed	53% (combined score liver surface and edge)	94% (combined score of surface and texture)
Afzal et al. 2013	116	US scoring system based on six variables	Liver morphology 90.3% (stage); 84.1% (grade); Liver morphology + size of liver, spleen, and PV; 44.4% (stage); 41.5% (grade)	Liver morphology 47.7% (stage); 44.1% (grade); Liver morphology + size of liver, spleen, and PV; 88.6% (stage); 91.2% (grade)