Table 2.
Correlation between pathology and MRI data
| MRI Data | Pathological Data |
Total | P* | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DNT | Gangliogliomas | Low-grade Gliomas | High-grade Gliomas | |||
| Total | 21 | 10 | 19 | 2 | 52 | − |
| Tumor size, mm (mean ± SD) | 26.4 (11.3) | 20.1 (13.6) | 49.2 (18.1) | 41.5 (2.1) | 34.1 (18.6) | <.001 |
| Location, n (%) | ||||||
| Mesial Temporal lobe | 12 (57) | 4 (40) | 1 (5) | 0 | 17 (33) | <.001 |
| Other | 9 (43) | 6 (60) | 18 (95) | 2 (100) | 35 (67) | |
| Bone deformation,n (%) | 3 (14) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 (6) | .304 |
| Gadolinium enhancement, n (%) | ||||||
| + | 2 (10) | 6 (75) | 3 (17) | 1 (50) | 12 (25) | .002 |
| − | 18 (90) | 2 (25) | 15 (83) | 1 (50) | 36 (75) | |
*Fisher exact probability test or the Mann–Whitney test.