Combination of DCE-MRI and DWI in Predicting the Treatment Effect of Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy in Esophageal Carcinoma

Table 1

Patient response and clinicopathological characteristics.

Characteristics	Cases (%)	Response		Chi-square test; value
		CR ()	Non-CR ()
Gender
Male	47 (83.9)	12	35	0.044
Female	9 (16.1)	2	7	0.834
Age (years)
≤60	12 (21.4)	4	8	0.566
>60	44 (78.6)	10	34	0.452
Clinical stage
I	14 (25.0)	6	8	3.508
II	22 (39.3)	5	17	0.173
III	20 (35.7)	3	17
T classification
T1	4 (7.1)	3	1	8.000
T2	24 (42.9)	6	18	0.046
T3	20 (35.7)	5	15
T4	8 (14.3)	0	8
N classification
N0	24 (42.9)	6	18	0.000
N1	16 (28.6)	4	12	1.000
N2	16 (28.6)	4	12
Pathological type
Squamous cell carcinoma	55 (98.2)	0	1	0.339
Adenocarcinoma	1 (1.8)	14	41	0.560
Location of primary tumor
Ce	6 (10.7)	3	3	4.848
Ut	22 (39.3)	3	19	0.183
Mt	24 (42.9)	6	18
Lt	4 (7.1)	2	2

Ce: cervical esophagus; Ut: upper thoracic esophagus; Mt: middle thoracic esophagus; Lt: lower thoracic esophagus.