Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

Table 2 Descriptive statistics for high- and low-grade gliomas regarding the overall rCBV ratios and spectroscopic data

From: The combined role of MR spectroscopy and perfusion imaging in preoperative differentiation between high- and low-grade gliomas

Variables	High grade N = 29	Low grade N = 21	P value
Age	49 (4–72)	26 (3–64)	0.022
Cho/Cr mass	3.5 (1.9–8.75)	1.6 (1.6–1.8)	0.0001
Cho/NAA mass	5.1 (2–7.5)	1.6 (1.2–1.8)	0.0001
rCBVt	3.5 (1.8–6.13)	1.16 (0.5–1.7)	0.0001
rCBVp	2.4 (0.5–3)	0.8 (0.29–1)	0.0001

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