Table 1 Characteristics of patients in the cohort investigated (n = 51).

From: Hepatic alveolar echinococcosis: correlation between computed tomography morphology and inflammatory activity in positron emission tomography

No previous treatment (n = 51)

N (%)

Mean ± SD

Gender

Male

Female

17 (33.3)

34 (66.7)

 

Age (mean ± SD)

 

55.6 ± 17.0

18–30 years

31–60 years

> 60 years

6 (11.8)

23 (45.1)

22 (43.1)

 

EMUC-CT primary morphology type

 

Size of the lesion (mm)

Type I

Type II

Type III

Type IV

Type V

17 (33.3)

11 (21.6)

9 (17.7)

13 (25.5)

1 (2.0)

77.2 ± 27.3

62.4 ± 27.3

87.9 ± 50.1

22.6 ± 15.9

32.0 ± 0.0

EMUC-CT calcification pattern

Without calcification

Feathery calcification

Diffuse calcification

Focal calcification

Calcification primarily at the edge

Central calcification

No calcification pattern

16 (32.0)

6 (12.0)

11 (22.0)

13 (26.0)

2 (4.0)

2 (4.0)

Primary morphological type IV

 

Site of the space-occupying lesion in the liver

right lobe

left lobe

both lobes

31 (60.8)

14 (27.4)

6 (11.8)

 

EMUC-CT primary morphology types for

PET-negative lesions (n = 10)

Type I

Type II

Type III

Type IV

Type V

1/17 (5.9%)

0/11 (0.0%)

1/9 (11.1%)

7/13 (53.8%)

1/1 (100.0%)