Table 2.
Characteristics of US findings in celiac disease (CD) patients and in controls.
| CD (#97) |
Controls (#1352) |
P | |
|---|---|---|---|
| HH, # (%) |
14 (14.4) |
69 (5.1) |
0.0009 |
| Prevalence of HH by gender | |||
| Females, # (%) | 13/79 (16.4) | 46/771 (5.9) | 0.002 |
| Males, # (%) | 1/18 (5.6) | 23/581 (3.9) | n.s. |
| Number of lesions | |||
| Single, # (%) | 12 (85.7) | 59 (85.5) | n.s. |
| Multiple, # (%) | 2 (14.3) | 10 (14.5) | n.s. |
| HH diameter (cm); median (range) |
1.3 (0.3–6.8) |
1.5 (0.7–4.6) |
n.s. |
| Atypical features*, # (%) | 1 (1) | 11 (0.81) | n.s. |
HH: hepatic hemangioma.
*Hypoechoic or isoechoic lesions, mixed echogenicity, lobulated mass, and blurred margins.