Research Article

Can Replacing CA125 with HE4 in Risk of Malignancy Indices 1–4 Improve Diagnostic Performance in the Presurgical Assessment of Adnexal Tumors?

Table 4

Distribution of age, menopause, ultrasound score, and maximum tumor diameter in patients with adnexal mass.

ParameterNonmalignant
Malignant
value

Age, years
 <3042 (16.2%)1 (1.9%)<0.001
 31–4068 (26.2%)3 (5.8%)
 41–5060 (23.1%)7 (13.5%)
 >5090 (34.6%)41 (78.8%)
Menopausal status
 Premenopausal184 (70.8%)11 (21.2%)<0.001
 Postmenopausal76 (29.2%)41 (78.8%)
Ultrasound score
 ≤1227 (87.3%)15 (28.8%)<0.001
 2–533 (12.7%)37 (71.2%)
Maximum tumor diameter
 <70 mm169 (65.0%)15 (28.8%)<0.001
 ≥70 mm91 (35.0%)37 (71.2%)

Data are shown as numbers and frequencies (percentage). values were computed using the chi-square test.