Year: 2015
Type: conference-abstract
Abstract: To evaluate the use of electrography in cases with endometrial polyps and submucosal fibroids and to assess the intraobserver reproducibility of measurements. 29 women (14 premenopausal and 15 postmenopausal) attending the gynecology ultrasound department for abnormal uterine bleeding were included in the study. All assessed by transvaginal scan and elastography. 25 cases with endometrial polys and 4 cases with submucous fibroids were diagnosed by transvaginal scan and as confirmed by hysteroscopy and histological examination. Three elastography measurements were performed by the same operator after identifying 3 regions of interest (endometrium, lesion and myometrium). The strain values and strain ratios using endometrium as the reference ROI were determined. The intraobserver repeatability of measurements at different ROI were evaluated using Bland-Altman analysis and ICC with 95% CI. There were no statistically significant differences or bias in any of elastography measurements made by the same examiner. The intraclass coefficient showed a significantly good level of measurement agreement in each ROI areas especially for the lesion with ICC of 0.9(95% CI 0.816–0.951). Our results show that the mean strain ratio for fibroids was higher than that for polyps (2.03 ± 0.692 versus 1.547 ± 0.81). Higher stain values were detected in cases of polyps (softer) with mean of 0.19 ± 0.08 and lower strain values in cases of fibroids (stiffer) with mean of 0.112 ± 0.05. Supporting information for OP03.03, OP04.04, OP04.06, OP04.09, OP05.02, OP05.05, OP08.06, OP09.09, OP09.11, OP10.02, OP10.06, OP10.07, OP10.08, OP12.06, OP14.05, OP15.06, OP17.04, OP18.01, OP18.08, OP19.03, OP19.11, OP20.01, OP20.05, OP21.07 can be found in the online version of these abstracts.
DOI: 10.1002/uog.15309
Authors: M. Salman, G. Derdelis, G. Salman
Language: English
Subfield: Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2185725859