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http://dx.doi.org/10.17946/JRST.2017.40.2.07

Fatty Liver Diagnostics from Medical Examination to Analyze the Accuracy Between the Abdominal Ultrasonography and Liver Hounsfield Units  

Oh, Wang-Kyun (Department of Radiology, Cheongju Medical Center)
Kim, Sang-Hyun (Department of Radiological Science, Shinhan University)
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Journal of radiological science and technology / v.40, no.2, 2017 , pp. 229-235 More about this Journal
Abstract
In abdominal Ultrasonography, the fatty liver is diagnosed through hepatic parenchymal echo increased parenchymal density and unclear blood vessel boundary, and according to many studies, abdominal Ultrasonography has 60~90% of sensitivity and 84~95% of specificity in diagnosis of fatty liver, but the result of Ultrasonography is dependent on operators, so there can be difference among operators, and quantitative measurement of fatty infiltration is impossible. Among examinees who same day received abdominal Ultrasonography and chest computed tomography (CT), patients who were diagnosed with a fatty liver in the Ultrasonography were measured with liver Hounsfield Units (HU) of chest CT imaging to analyze the accuracy of the fatty liver diagnosis. Among 720 subject examinees, those who were diagnosed with a fatty liver through abdominal Ultrasonography by family physicians were 448, which is 62.2%. The result of Liver HU measurement in the chest CT imaging of those who were diagnosed with a fatty liver showed that 175 out of 720 had the measured value of less than 40 HU, which is 24.3%, and 173 were included to the 175 among 448 who were diagnosed through Ultrasonography, so 98.9% corresponded. This indicates that the operators' subjective ability has a great impact on diagnosis of lesion in Ultrasonography diagnosis of a fatty liver, and that in check up chest CT, under 40 HU in the measurement of Liver HU can be used for reference materials in diagnosis of a fatty liver.
Keywords
Fatty Liver; Abdominal Ultrasonography; Medical Examination; Hounsfield Unit; Multi-detector computed tomography;
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