The diagnostic value of MR spectroscopy versus DWI-MRI in therapeutic planning of suspicious multi-centric cerebral lesions

Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

Table 3 Spectroscopic data analysis for all non-neoplastic and neoplastic lesions

MRS (mean ± SD)	Neoplastic No = 65	Non-neoplastic No = 35	P value
Cho/Cr	5.97 ± 6.01	1.87 ± 0.5	< 0.001*
Cho/NAA	6.22 ± 5.07	1.3 ± 0.69	< 0.001*
NAA/Cr	0.81 ± 0.71	1.29 ± 0.69	0.003*
Cho/NAA + Cr	2.81 ± 2.38	0.7 ± 0.4	< 0.001*
NAA/Cho	0.39 ± 0.3	1.4 ± 0.5	< 0.001*
Lipid	44 + ve, 21-ve	25 + ve, 10-ve	-
Lactate	51 + ve, 14-ve	25 + ve, 10-ve	-
(AA, A, S, and P)	65-ve	+ ve 3 abs/-ve 32	-