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Table 2 Sensitivity of ultrasound, intraoperative ultrasound, nonstandardized computed tomography and magnetic resonance

From: Focused abdominal ultrasound in preoperative liver surgery staging: a prospective study

 

Sensitivity, % (number of lesions)

 

Imaging method

All lesions

Lesions <15 mm

P value

Ultrasound

75.5 (196)

55.3 (96)

0.0050

Intraoperative ultrasound

95.5 (196)

92.3 (96)

0.5136

Computed tomography

75.5 (67)

33.3 (23)

0.0131

Magnetic resonance imaging

63.6 (55)

31.5 (26)

0.0391

  1. Sensitivity using histological evaluation as the gold standard considering separately all lesions and lesions <15 mm.