TY - JOUR
AR - RDI-2018-2-101
TI - Differentiation between stage I ovarian cancer and borderline epithelial ovarian tumor by apparent diffusion coefficient value
AU - Hitoshi , Masamoto
AU - Keiko, Mekaru
AU - Tadaharu, Nakasone
AU - Tadatsugu , Kinjo
AU - Tomoko , Nakamoto
AU - Wataru , Kudaka
AU - Yoichi , Aoki
AU - Yoshino , Kinjyo
AU - Yuko, Iraha
AU - Yusuke, Taira
JO - Radiology and Medical Diagnostic Imaging
PY - 2018
DA - Thu 13, Dec 2018
SN - 2613-7836
DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.31487/j.RDI.2018.02.001
UR - https://www.sciencerepository.org/dc-value-in-diagnosis-of-ovarian-tumor_RDI-2-101 
KW - Apparent diffusion coefficient value, borderline epithelial ovarian tumor, differential diagnosis, magnetic resonance imaging,malignant epithelial ovarian tumor
AB - 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.