Inter-reader agreement of interpretation of radiological course of bile duct changes between serial follow-up magnetic resonance imaging/3D magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography of patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis.

Conclusions: Inter-reader agreement of the interpretation of radiological course of duct changes is poor in serial follow-up MRI/MRCP of PSC-patients. Elimination of 3 D MRCP does not increase inter-reader agreement but maintains an excellent intra-reader agreement for the interpretation of the dynamic course of bile duct changes.Key pointsInter-reader agreement of interpretation of radiological course of bile duct changes between serial follow-up MRI/MRCP examinations of patients with PSC is poor.Absence of 3D MRCP does not affect considerably the way readers interpret the radiological course of bile ducts changes.When MRCP is absent or of low quality, utilization of other sequences seems to be helpful as an alternative for bile duct evaluation. PMID: 32024405 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology - February 8, 2020 Category: Gastroenterology Tags: Scand J Gastroenterol Source Type: research