Colorectal Carcinoma: Local Tumor Staging and Assessment of Lymph Node Metastasis by High-Resolution MR Imaging in Surgical Specimens

Table 2

Comparison of high-resolution MR imaging and histopathologic findings for evaluating the depth of invasion in colorectal carcinoma.

	Histopathologic findings
MR imaging findings	Mucosa(n = 19)	Submucosa (n = 15)	Muscularis propria (n = 15)	Subserosa/serosa or adventitia (n = 47)
Mucosa	17	0	0	0
Submucosa	2	14	0	0
Muscularis propria	0	1	13	1
Subserosa/serosa or adventitia	0	0	2	46

Note. Numbers are numbers of lesions among 96 carcinomas in 92 patients.