Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

Table 4 Evaluation of different conventional signs of CPA masses

From: Additional diagnostic role of MRI spectroscopy, diffusion and susceptibility imaging in differentiation of CPA masses: our experience with emphasis on schwannomas and meningiomas

	Diagnosis				χ²	^MCp
	Schwannoma (n = 12)		Meningioma (n = 7)
	No.	%	No.	%
Diffusion
Hyper	4	33.3	7	100.0	7.359^*	0.019^*
Iso	6	50	0	0.0
Hypo	2	16.7	0	0.0
ADC value
<1	1	8.3	4	57.2	5.135^*	0.042^*
1–1.7	10	83.4	3	42.8
≥1.8	1	8.3	0	0.0

χ²: chi-square test, MC Monte Carlo
p: p value for association between different categories

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