Differentiation between stage I ovarian cancer and borderline epithelial ovarian tumor by apparent diffusion coefficient value

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Hitoshi Masamoto Keiko Mekaru Tadaharu Nakasone Tadatsugu Kinjo Tomoko Nakamoto Wataru Kudaka Yoichi Aoki Yoshino Kinjyo Yuko Iraha Yusuke Taira

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Yoichi Aoki
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, 207 Uehara Nishihara, Okinawa 903-0215, Japan

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To clarify usefulness of apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) value in the differential diagnosis of stage I malignant epithelial ovarian tumor (MOT) and borderline epithelial ovarian tumor (BOT), the ADC value of the solid portion or thickened wall of ovarian tumors was evaluated by a 1.5-T magnetic resonance imaging system in 18 cases of BOT and MOT. The median of average ADC value was 1.668 × 10−3 mm2 /s for BOT and 1.021 × 10−3 mm2 /s for MOT (p = 0.0005), and the median of minimum ADC value was 1.394 × 10−3 mm2 /s for BOT and 0.812× 10−3 mm2 /s for MOT (p = 0.0006), both of which were significantly lower in MOT than that in BOT. So the ADC value is useful and especially the minimum ADC value is useful in that it can easily measure the ROI so that it contains solid portion or thickened wall.

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Research Article

Publication history

Received: Mon 19, Nov 2018
Accepted: Tue 04, Dec 2018
Published: Thu 13, Dec 2018

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© 2023 Yoichi Aoki. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.RDI.2018.02.001