A Real-time and Computerized Sonographic Reporting System in Predicting Malignant Cervical Lymphadenopathy
A Real-time and Computerized Sonographic Reporting System in Predicting Malignant Cervical Lymphadenopathy
The investigaotors want to establish a real-time and computerized score reporting system
 based on the significant predictors of the measured sonographic parameters and demographic
 data.
One hundred eight patients with neck lymphadenopathy, receiving ultrasonography and
 ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration (US-FNA), were used to construct a predictive model.
 This model was validated by another independent patient cohort.
Inclusion Criteria:

 -  Patients with previously untreated neck masses underwent neck US

 Exclusion Criteria:

 -  The neck mass was not lymph node

 -  No US-FNA cytology result