Table 1 Mean, SD, minimum, and maximum of MD (× 10^–3 mm²/s) and FA of malignant, benign, metastatic, lymphomatous, well-moderately, poorly differentiated, and different stages of cervical lymph nodes

Malignant (n = 64)

0.83 ± 0.14

0.26 ± 0.07

Benign (n = 36)

1.32 ± 0.33

0.22 ± 0.09

P value

0.001

0.02

Metastatic (n = 56)

0.86 ± 0.12

0.25 ± 0.07

Lymphoma (n = 8)

0.66 ± 0.13

0.28 ± 0.02

P value

0.001

0.03

Well-moderate differentiated (n = 39)

0.81 ± 0.06

0.26 ± 0.08

Poorly differentiated (n = 17)

0.96 ± 0.16

0.23 ± 0.04

P value

0.001

0.23

Stages I and II (n = 15)

0.88 ± 0.13

0.22 ± 0.04

Stages III and IV (n = 41)

0.80 ± 0.05

0.26 ± 0.08

P value

0.018

0.69