Value of B-scan ultrasonography in the diagnosis of liver cancer. Accuracy compared to scintigraphy and angiography.
Seventy-one patients with liver cancer were examined by B-scan ultrasonography. The presence of liver cancer was assumed through the irregularity and increased intensity of echos. The accuracy of ultrasonography in the diagnosis of liver cancer was 72%, while the diagnostic accuracy of scintigraphy was 85% and angiography 93%. No obvious correlation could be demonstrated between the ultrasonographic patterns and serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) levels. Ultrasonography is a useful method of detecting liver cancer.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000792:Angiography; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D014463:Ultrasonography; D000509:alpha-Fetoproteins / Q000378:metabolism
D000509:alpha-Fetoproteins