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Table 2 Agreement of lesion location

From: Agreement in breast lesion assessment and final BI-RADS classification between radial and meander-like breast ultrasound

 

Radial US+

Meander-like US++

ICC

Weighted kappa

Agreement

Clock-face localization

   

0.70

Substantial

Mean distance to mammilla (mm)

(min, max) [SD]

28.6

(0.0–86.0) [± 20.5]

33.3

(0.0–100.0), [± 22.6]

0.64

 

Good

Mean distance to skin (mm)

(min, max) [SD]

8.4

(1.0–26.0) [± 5.0]

6.9

(1.0–20.0) [± 4.0]

0.72

 

Good

  1. +Due to the wide transducer in r-US, the mammilla is visualized as the rotation point, and thus, allowed for measuring the distance between lesion and nipple.++ In m-US, the nipple-lesion distance was estimated
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