Table 2.
Comparison of the unfeasibility of biopsy between the first and the second readers based on the PDF document.
| Characteristics | First Reader (No Biopsy = 76) |
Second Reader (No Biopsy = 68) |
p Value |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Dimension (mm) [mean ± SD] Subgroups |
15.2 ± 5.1 | 15.3 ± 5.2 | 0.779 |
| 10–20 mm (n; %) | 66 (86.8) | 61 (89.7) | 0.578 |
| 21–30 mm (n; %) | 7 (9.2) | 4 (5.9) | 0.414 |
| 31–40 mm (n; %) | 3 (3.9) | 3 (4.4) | 1 |
| Liver segment | |||
| 1 (n; %) | 0 | ||
| 2 (n; %) | 6 (7.9) | 9 (13.2) | 0.479 |
| 3 (n; %) | 5 (6.6) | 7 (10.3) | 0.716 |
| 4 (n; %) | 8 (10.5) | 5 (7.4) | 0.433 |
| 5 (n; %) | 11 (14.5) | 12 (17.6) | 1 |
| 6 (n; %) | 5 (6.6) | 3 (4.4) | 0.678 |
| 7 (n; %) | 14 (18.4) | 10 (14.7) | 0.289 |
| 8 (n; %) | 27 (35.5) | 22 (32.4) | 0.237 |
| Location | |||
| Anterior, superficial (n; %) | 44 (57.9) | 36 (52.9) | 0.217 |
| Posterior, superficial (n; %) | 14 (18.4) | 12 (17.6) | 0.777 |
| Centrohepatic (n; %) | 14 (18.4) | 16(23.5) | 0.789 |
| Deep behind a fictitious line of the portal axis (n; %) | 4 (5.3) | 4 (5.9) | 1 |
| Contrast behaviour | |||
| Arterial hypervascularisation (n; %) | 16 (21.0) | 18 (26.5) | 0.832 |
| No arterial hypervascularisation (n; %) | 36 (47.4) | 42 (61.8) | 0.426 |
SD: standard deviation.