Table 2. ADC texture and histogram parameters of the grade II, III and IV gliomas.

				p-value*
Parameter	Grade II (n = 8)	Grade III (n = 10)	Grade IV (n = 22)	II vs. III	II vs. IV	III vs. IV
Texture parameter
Entropy	6.261±0.4120	6.295±0.4963	7.119±0.3165	>0.05	<0.001	<0.001
Skewness	0.082±0.176	0.265±0.572	0.733±0.671	>0.05	<0.05	>0.05
Kurtosis	0.477±1.659	0.898±2.068	0.967±2.532	0.872**
ADC (x10−6mm2/sec)
Mean	1,327±322	1,177±334	1,355±255	0.27**
Fifth percentile	1,030±185	881±261	815±226	0.088**

Note.–Values are the means ± standard deviation.

*Significant difference between three groups (P<.05); P-values were calculated using a one-way analysis of variance with a post-hoc test.

**P values were calculated using a one-way analysis of variance, and a post-hoc test was not performed.