Table 1 Tumor characteristics and MRI findings during initial assessment of the studied 40 patients with colorectal cancer
From: Role of diffusion-weighted MRI in diagnosis and post therapeutic follow-up of colorectal cancer
Tumor characteristics | No. and MRI findings |
|---|---|
Histopathologic type | |
Tubular adenocarcinoma | 38 (37 show diffusion restriction in DWI) |
Mucinous adenocarcinoma | 2 (show no diffusion restriction in DWI) |
Histopathologic grade | |
Well-differentiated adenocarcinoma | 13 (mean ADC value± SD 0.979 ± 0.183 × 10−3mm2/s, P-value < 0.0001*) |
Moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma | 20 (mean ADC value± SD 1.112 ± 0.141 × 10−3mm2/s, P-value < 0.0001*) |
Poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma | 7 (mean ADC value± SD 1.273 ± 0.017 × 10−3mm2/s, P-value < 0.0001*) |