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Salivary gland ultrasonography reliably assessed parenchymal inhomogeneity in patients with pSS
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Recently published results showed salivary gland ultrasonography reliably assessed parenchymal inhomogeneity by multiple assessors among patients with established primary Sjögren’s syndrome.
Researchers performed a reliability exercise that used scoring greyscale and color Doppler ultrasound to evaluate 24 patients with primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS) and eight control patients at the Institute of Rheumatology in Belgrade, Serbia. A second reliability exercise assessed 10 patients with pSS with scoring greyscale and color Doppler ultrasound at the Hospital G.U. Gregorio Marañón in Madrid, according to researchers. Researchers used a four-grade scoring system to semiquantitatively score salivary gland ultrasonography parenchymal inhomogeneity and the parenchymal color Doppler signal.
Overall, researchers performed 640 salivary gland ultrasonography examinations in the first reliability exercise and 320 examinations in the second reliability exercise. Results showed both exercises had good to excellent multiobserver reliability for scoring greyscale parenchymal inhomogeneity. Parenchymal color Doppler signal in the first exercise had moderate to good multiobserver reliability, according to results, while parenchymal color Doppler signal had either no agreement or a fair agreement in the second exercise. – by Casey Tingle
Disclosure: The researchers report no relevant financial disclosures.
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