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What does echogenicity mean?

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Noun
  1. (medicine) The ability to create an echo that can be detected in an ultrasound examination.
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Lesion features are frequently characterized based on shape, echogenicity, shadowing, margin irregularity, and microlobulation.
Ultrasonographic images showed a generalized increased echogenicity of the liver and a mass with capsulated structure just dorsal to the liver.
Ultrasonographic findings distinguished the mass from the liver and revealed high vascularization of the mass and a moderate increase in echogenicity of the liver.
Ectopic cysts will be highly echogenic, while corpus luteum will have an echogenicity equivalent to or slightly less than the ovary itself.

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