The Utility and Inter-Reader Agreement in the Evaluation of Pediatric Liver Masses with Hepatobiliary Contrast Enhanced MRI
Journal Title: International Journal of Radiology and Imaging Technology - Year 2017, Vol 3, Issue 1
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Objective: To evaluate the utility of Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI in pediatric liver lesions. Methods and results: 22 patients with liver lesions evaluated on Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI were selected. Two reviewers assigned a diagnosis and stratified the hepatobiliary images as: 1) High utility; 2) Potential utility; or 3) No utility. 95% of assigned diagnoses were correct with almost-perfect agreement (κ = 0.92). Hepatobiliary images were deemed useful by at least one reviewer in 82% cases with moderate agreement (k = 0.48). Conclusion: Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI had high or potential utility in the majority of cases with moderate inter-reader agreement and seemingly demonstrating a promising role in characterizing pediatric liver lesions.
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