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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 24.
Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2010 Jun;31(6):1371–1378. doi: 10.1002/jmri.22179

Table 1.

Median values of lesion volume and lesion-averaged pharmacokinetic parameters, with interquartile ranges given parenthetically.

N Volume (cc) Ktrans (1/min) kep (1/min) vp (%) ve (%)
benign 60 0.00 (0.00-0.22) 0.00 (0.00-0.04) 0.00 (0.00-0.16) 0.0 (0.0-0.4)% 0 (0-21)%
    no abnormality visualized 32* n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
    visible benign lesions 28 0.40 (0.22-0.57) 0.06 (0.05-0.08) 0.19 (0.16-0.23) 0.5 (0.4-0.8)% 28 (22-39)%
        papilloma 5 0.10 (0.08-0.39) 0.05 (0.04-0.06) 0.27 (0.27-0.28) 0.5 (0.4-0.5)% 18 (17-21)%
        fibroadenoma 18 0.48 (0.22-0.57) 0.07 (0.05-0.10) 0.16 (0.11-0.21) 0.4 (0.2-0.9)% 28 (24-56)%
        other 5 1.43 (0.37-1.89) 0.08 (0.04-0.09) 0.19 (0.18-0.24) 0.9 (0.7-1.4)% 35 (28-41)%
atypical/malignant lesions 33 0.50 (0.19-2.84) 0.09 (0.08-0.12) 0.31 (0.24-0.36) 0.6 (0.4-1.0)% 34 (28-43)%
    atypical 5 0.36 (0.09-1.89) 0.05 (0.04-0.06) 0.24 (0.19-0.26) 0.5 (0.4-0.6)% 25 (15-28)%
    malignant 28 0.88 (0.33-2.84) 0.11 (0.08-0.13) 0.32 (0.25-0.36) 0.8 (0.4-1.0)% 39 (30-43)%
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In 32 patients no abnormality could be identified on the kep map. All of these showed benign pathology.