Differentiation of benign and malignant neck tumors by APT
Xiaohan Song1, Lijun Wang1, Ailian Liu1, Jiazheng Wang1, and Lihua Chen1
1the First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China
Our results suggested the potential of APTw imaging in the differential
diagnosis between malignant and benign neck tumors with relatively high sensitivity
and specificity.
Figure2 : APTw values of the cervical malignant tumor group were significantly
higher than those of the benign tumor group
Figure3: The
ROC curve of the APTw value to differentiate between the malignant and benign
neck tumors.