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Keun Young Park1, Byung Moon Kim, Eun Hyun Ihm
1Department of Neurosurgery, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Background And Purpose:
Coil packing density (PD) can be calculated via a formula (PDF ) or software (PDS ). Two types of PD can be different from each other for same aneurysm. This study aimed to evaluate the interobserver agreement and relationships between the 2 types of PD relative to aneurysm size.
Methods:
Consecutive 420 saccular aneurysms were treated with coiling. PD (PDF , [coil volume]/[volume calculated by formula] and PDS, [coil volume]/[volume measured by software]) was calculated and prospectively recorded. Interobserver agreement was evaluated between PDF and PDS . Additionally, the relationships between PDF and PDS relative to aneurysm size were subsequently analyzed.
Results:
Interobserver agreement for PDF and PDS was excellent (Intraclass correlation coefficient, PDF ; 0.967 and PDS ; 0.998). The ratio of PDF and PDS was greater for smaller aneurysms and converged toward 1.0 as the maximum dimension (DM ) of aneurysm increased. Compared with PDS , PDF was overestimated by a mean of 28% for DM < 5 mm, by 17% for 5 mm ≤ DM < 10 mm, and by 9% for DM ≥ 10 mm (P < 0.01).
Conclusions:
Interobserver agreement for PDF and PDS was excellent. However, PDF was overestimated in smaller aneurysms and converged to PDS as aneurysm size increased.
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