Starry Sky Sign: A Prevalent Sonographic Finding In Mediastinal Tuberculous Lymph Nodes
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Tarih
2015Yazar
Alici, Ibrahim Onur
Demirci, Nilgün Yılmaz
Yılmaz, Aydın
Karakaya, Jale
Erdoğan, Yurdanur
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Background and Objectives: We report a prevalent finding in tuberculous lymphadenitis (TL): Starry sky sign, hyperechoic foci without acoustic shadows over a hypoechoic background. Materials and Methods: We retrospectively searched the database for a possible relationship of starry sky sign with a specific diagnosis and also the prevalence and accuracy of the finding. Results: Starry sky sign was found in 16 of 31 tuberculous lymph nodes, while none of other lymph nodes (1,015 lymph nodes) exhibited this finding; giving a sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), negative predictive value (NPV), and accuracy of 51.6%, 100%, 100%, 98.5%, and 98.5%, respectively. Conclusion: Bacteriologic and histologic findings are gold standard in the diagnosis of tuberculosis, but this finding may guide the bronchoscopist in choosing the more pathologic node within a station and increase the diagnostic yield as it may relate to actively dividing mycobacteria.
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https://doi.org/10.4103/2303-9027.163004https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4568635/
http://hdl.handle.net/11655/14703