Surveillance Program for Diagnosis of HCC in Liver Cirrhosis: Role of Ultrasound Echo Patterns

Table 2

Correlation coefficient of the two sonographers for single echo pattern classified according to Landis’ score.

	concordance	95% CI	Landis’ score
H	1	—	Perfect agreement
BL	0.85	0.80–0.90	Perfect agreement
C	0.88	0.81–0.95	Perfect agreement
CSNP	0.79	0.75–0.83	Substantial agreement
CLNP	0.78	0.73–0.93	Substantial agreement

H, homogeneous; BL, bright liver; C, coarse pattern; CSNP, coarse small nodular pattern; CLNP, coarse large nodular pattern.