Clinical Study
Application of Real-Time Tissue Elastography with a Low Frequency Convex Array Probe: A Noninvasive Approach to Differential Diagnosis of Liver Tumors
Table 1
Elasticity type and pathological diagnosis of live tumor.
| | Pathological diagnosis | Elasticity type of live tumor | | n | Type a | Type b | Type c | Type d |
| | Benign tumor | | | | | | | Haemangioma* | 40 | 23 | 15 | 2 | 0 | | Local hyperplasic nodule | 1 | | | | 1 | | Cirrhosis hyperplasic nodule | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | | Untypical abscess | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | | Malignant lesion | | | | | | | Primary tumor | | | | | | | HCC | 39 | 0 | 2 | 34 | 3 | | ICC | 6 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | Metastatic tumor | | | | | | | Colorectal adenocarcinoma | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | | Pancreatic adenocarcinoma | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | | Gastric adenocarcinoma | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | | Lung cancer | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | | Gallbladder cancer | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| | Total | 121 | 24 | 22 | 50 | 25 |
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HCC: hepatocellular carcinoma; ICC: intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma. *27 of 40 Haemangiomas were diagnosed by CT angiography, US angiography, and MRI.
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