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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jun 24.
Published in final edited form as: Eur J Radiol. 2020 Apr 11;127:108976. doi: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2020.108976

Table 3:

Distribution of ultrasound features in benign and malignant lesions (not significant), note: there was calcification within the malignant lesion; in one benign lesion there was calcification within the lesion, in the other was outside the lesion.

Ultrasound feature Number of malignant lesions (%) Number of benign lesions (%) P-value
Echo pattern P= 0.503

Hypoechoic 7 (25.9%) 20 (74.1%)
Isoechoic 3 (42.9%) 4 (57.1%)
Heterogeneous 7 (61.1%) 11 (61.1%)
Others 0 5 (100%)

Posterior features P= 0.078

None 12 (25%) 36 (75%)
Enhancement 0 1 (100%)
Shadowing 4 (66.7%) 2 (33.3%)
Combined 1 (50%) 1 (50%)

Calcifications P=0.662

None 16 (29.6%) 38 (70.4%)
Present 1 (33.3%) 2 (66.7%)

Vascularity P= 0.295

Absent 3 (15.8%) 16 (84.2%)
Internal 3 (27.3%) 8 (72.7%)
Vessels in rim 1 (50%) 1 (50%)
No data 10 (40%) 15 (60%)