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Liver trauma diagnosis with contrast-enhanced ultrasound: interobserver variability between radiologist and emergency physician in an animal study

Authors
 Je Sung You  ;  Yong Eun Chung  ;  Hye-Jeong Lee  ;  Sung Phil Chung  ;  Incheol Park  ;  Myeong-Jin Kim  ;  Mi-Suk Park  ;  Joon Seok Lim  ;  Jin-Young Choi  ;  Seungho Kim  ;  Ki Whang Kim 
Citation
 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE, Vol.30(7) : 1229-1234, 2012 
Journal Title
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE
ISSN
 0735-6757 
Issue Date
2012
MeSH
Animals ; Emergency Medicine ; Liver/diagnostic imaging ; Liver/injuries* ; Male ; Observer Variation ; Physicians ; Rabbits ; Radiology ; Sensitivity and Specificity ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed ; Ultrasonography ; Wounds, Nonpenetrating/diagnostic imaging
Keywords
Animals ; Emergency Medicine ; Liver/diagnostic imaging ; Liver/injuries* ; Male ; Observer Variation ; Physicians ; Rabbits ; Radiology ; Sensitivity and Specificity ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed ; Ultrasonography ; Wounds, Nonpenetrating/diagnostic imaging
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of our study was to evaluate interobserver variability between the radiologist and emergency physician in detecting blunt liver trauma by conventional and contrast-enhanced ultrasound (US) (CEUS).
METHODS: We created 20 sites of blunt liver trauma in rabbits and performed conventional US and CEUS on the animals. A radiologist and an emergency physician independently evaluated the degree of liver trauma. Using contrast-enhanced computed tomography as a reference standard, the diagnostic performance of US and CEUS was calculated. Interobserver variability between radiologist and emergency physician was compared before and after contrast enhancement of US.
RESULTS: Overall sensitivity and specificity for detecting liver trauma on conventional US, regardless of the degree of trauma, were 61.1% and 100% for the radiologist and 50% and 100% for the emergency physician. On CEUS, the sensitivity and specificity were 94.4% and 100% for both the radiologist and emergency physician. The interobserver agreement between emergency physician and radiologist increased from 0.867 to 0.955 after contrast enhancement on US.
CONCLUSIONS: Contrast-enhanced US may permit a more accurate diagnosis for liver trauma than conventional US by both the radiologist and emergency physician. Contrast-enhanced US may also reduce interobserver variability for this diagnosis.
Full Text
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0735675711002877
DOI
21871760
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1. College of Medicine (의과대학) > Dept. of Emergency Medicine (응급의학교실) > 1. Journal Papers
1. College of Medicine (의과대학) > Dept. of Radiology (영상의학교실) > 1. Journal Papers
Yonsei Authors
Kim, Ki Whang(김기황)
Kim, Myeong Jin(김명진) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7949-5402
Park, Mi-Suk(박미숙) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5817-2444
Park, In Cheol(박인철) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7033-766X
You, Je Sung(유제성) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2074-6745
Lee, Hye Jeong(이혜정) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4349-9174
Lim, Joon Seok(임준석) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0334-5042
Chung, Sung Phil(정성필) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3074-011X
Chung, Yong Eun(정용은) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0811-9578
Choi, Jin Young(최진영) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9025-6274
URI
https://ir.ymlib.yonsei.ac.kr/handle/22282913/89418
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