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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ultrasound Med Biol. 2007 Sep 27;34(1):12–21. doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2007.07.003

Table 1.

Sonographic characteristics and resulting differential correlation coefficients (DCC) of the non-simple cysts analyzed in this study. Characteristics which the cysts exhibited were marked with an “X”. Cysts must exhibit all four characteristics to be classified as “simple”.

Cyst Anechoic Well-circumscribed Imperceptible wall Posterior acoustic enhancement Differential Correlation Coefficient (DCC) (%)
1 X X X 17.4
2 34.0
3 16.1
4 X X 38.5
5 X 12.1
6 X X X 36.7
7 X 14.9