Table 4 Association between preoperative DTI patterns and postoperative DTI findings
From: Surgical planning in patients with brain glioma using diffusion tensor MR imaging and tractography
Postoperative DTI | Preoperative DTI patterns | pa | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I (n = 2) | II (n = 15) | III (n = 11) | IV (n = 12) | V (n = 4) | |||||||
No | % | No | % | No | % | No | % | No | % | Â | |
Normalized position and anisotropy | 2 | 100.0 | 13 | 86.7 | 7 | 63.6 | 6 | 50.0 | 0 | 0.0 | <0.001* |
Normalized position and partial FA improvement | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 13.3 | 3 | 27.3 | 4 | 33.3 | 0 | 0.0 | |
No fibers position or FA improvement | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 9.1 | 2 | 16.7 | 0 | 0.0 | |
No identifiable fiber tracts on FA or directional color maps | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 4 | 100.0 | |