Clinical Study

Differentiation of Benign Angiomatous and Microcystic Meningiomas with Extensive Peritumoral Edema from High Grade Meningiomas with Aid of Diffusion Weighted MRI

Table 1

Numerical summary for the three important outcome measures by group.

Group Mean age (Std.)MRI values Number of cases with available dataMean (Std.)Upper 95% CI Lower 95% CI

1 22 60.0 (14.9)CBV perfusion 13 14.5 (6.1)18.1 10.8
Edema index223.5 (3.1)4.82.1
ADC221.9 (1.0)2.31.5

2 37 60.7 (15.4)CBV perfusion 22 12.4 (4.9)14.6 10.2
Edema index373.0 (2.8)4.02.1
ADC371.1 (0.2)1.11.0

3 11 63.1 (15.0)CBV perfusion 10 10.9 (3.1)13.2 8.7
Edema index111.4 (0.7)1.80.9
ADC111.8 (0.9)2.41.2

Std. is standard deviation.