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Table 3 Prevalence of malignant lesions within the different elastography scores

From: Ultrasound real-time elastography can predict malignancy in BI-RADS®-US 3 lesions

Prevalence of malignancy according to the Tsukuba Elasticity Score

TES

n

Prevalence of malignant lesions

1

7

0% (0.0-43.9)

2

82

2.4% (0.4-9.4)

3

46

2.2% (0.1-13.0)

4

29

13.8% (4.5-32.6)

5

9

11.1% (0.6-49.3)

BGR-sign

4

0% (0.0-60.4)

  1. 95% confidence interval in brackets. TES = Tsukuba elasticity score; BGR = blue-green-red.