First author [Ref] | Numbers | Mean age (range) years ± standard deviation | Mean disease duration (months, years) | Spend time (min) | Number of LUS operator | Reproducibility between operator | |
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Female | Male | ||||||
Delle [32] | 22 | 3 | 53 ± 10.5 | – | – | 2 | Intra-class correlation = 0.681 |
Tardella [10] | 30 | 4 | 57 ± 13 | 85.58 ± 84.37 months | 23 ± 4.5 | 2 | Kappa = 0.846–0.980 |
Barskova [24] | 54 | 4 | 51 ± 14 | – | < 10 | 2 | Intra-observer variability 5.1%, inter-observer variability 7.4% |
Mohammadi [33] | 62 | 8 | 50.29 ± 9.7 | 88 ± 83.1 months | – | 1 | Kappa = 0.838 |
Moazedi-Fuerst [34] | 54 | 10 | 59 ± 12 | 9.4 (2–21) years | – | 2 | Kappa = 0.92 |
Cogliati [7] | 29 | 10 | 64.87 | 11.21 years | – | 2 | Kappa = 0.78 |
Moazedi-Fuerst [23] | 38 | 7 | 54 (28–74) | 8 (1–35) years | – | 2 | – |
Vizioli [35] | – | – | 65 ± 13 |  | 8 ± 1 (5–14) |  | – |
Cakir [29] | 46 | 2 | 50.8 ± 11.9 | 4.6 ± 3.8 years | – | 2 | Inter-observer reliability r = 0.96 |
Vasco [8] | 13 | 0 | 63.62 (39–88) | – | – | 2 | Intra-rater reliability k = 1 |
Tardella [9] | 34 | 6 | 56.4 ± 13.42 | 78 ± 81.52 months | 8.7 ± 1.3 | 2 | – |