Open AccessStarry sky sign: A prevalent sonographic finding in mediastinal tuberculous lymph nodes
Author(s) -
İbrahim Onur Alıcı,
Nilgün Yılmaz Demirci,
Aydın Yilmaz,
Jale Karakaya,
Yurdanur Erdoğan
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
endoscopic ultrasound
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.883
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 2303-9027
pISSN - 2226-7190
DOI - 10.4103/2303-9027.163004
Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculosis , lymph , predictive value , gold standard (test) , lymph node , radiology , tuberculous lymphadenitis , sign (mathematics) , sky , diagnostic accuracy , pathology , physics , astrophysics , mathematical analysis , mathematics
We report a prevalent finding in tuberculous lymphadenitis (TL): Starry sky sign, hyperechoic foci without acoustic shadows over a hypoechoic background.