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. 2021 Jun 16;46(10):4647–4659. doi: 10.1007/s00261-021-03010-1

Table 3.

Comparison of accuracy improvement in diagnosis of target lesions as benign or malignant (post-contrast versus pre-contrast)

Reader Treatment Total Accuracya Accuracy Improvement (%) p-valuec
Improved Same Worsened
1 SonoVue 157 38 100 19 24.2
Sonazoid 160 29 114 17 18.1
Difference (95% CIb) 6.1 ( − 5.0, 17.2) 0.0013
2 SonoVue 158 23 119 16 14.6
Sonazoid 163 36 107 20 22.1
Difference (95% CIb) − 7.5 (− 18.4, 3.5)  < .0001
3 SonoVue 162 27 115 20 16.7
Sonazoid 165 28 121 16 17.0
Difference (95% CIb) − 0.3 (− 11.3, 10.7)  < .0001

aPost-contrast versus pre-contrast diagnosis when compared with the reference diagnosis

bExact binomial 95% confidence interval

cp-values based on the Farrington-Manning score test for noninferiority