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Table 2 The relationship between MRI findings and the treatment success

From: Magnetic resonance imaging findings of idiopathic granulomatous mastitis: can it be an indirect sign of treatment success or fail?

Parameters

Treatment success

Recurrence (%)

Yes (%)

No (%)

Total

p

Quadrants

 Other quadrants

0 (%0.0)

40 (%90.9)

15 (%88.2)

55

0.018*

 Retroareolar

1 (%100)

4 (%9.1)

2 (%11.8)

7

MRG lesion

 Mass

0 (%0.0)

2 (%4.5)

1 (%5.9)

3

0.976

 Mass + NME

1 (%100)

31 (%70.5)

12 (%70.6)

44

 NME

0 (%0)

11 (%25.0)

4 (%23.5)

15

MRI mass

 Abcess

1 (%100)

27 (%81.8)

11 (%84.6)

39

0.878

 Solid

0 (%0)

6 (%18.2)

2 (%15.4)

8

Shape

 Irregular

0 (%0)

12 (%36.4)

4 (%30.8)

16

0.544

 Oval

0 (%0)

1 (%3)

2 (%15.4)

3

 Round

1 (%100)

20 (%60.6)

7 (%53.8)

28

Margin

 Irregular

0 (%0)

9 (%27.3)

3 (%23.1)

12

0.914

 Well-circumsribed

1 (%100)

23 (%69.7)

9 (%69.2)

33

 Spiculated

0 (%0)

1 (%3)

1 (%7.7)

2

Mass enhancement

 Heterogeneous

0 (%0)

4 (%12.1)

1 (%7.7)

5

0.570

 Homogeneous

0 (%0)

0 (%0)

1 (%7.7)

1

 Rim enhancement

1 (%100)

29 (%87.9)

11 (%84.6)

41

Nonmass enhancement

 Regional

0 (%0)

22 (%53.7)

11 (%68.8)

33

0.271

 Diffusse

0 (%0)

2 (%4.9)

1 (%6.3)

3

 Focal

1 (%100)

5 (%12.2)

0 (%0)

6

 Lineer

0 (%0)

2 (%4.9)

0 (%0)

2

 Multiple regional

0 (%0)

9 (%22)

4 (%25)

13

 Segmental

0 (%0)

1 (%)

0 (%0)

1

NME (internal)

 Heterogeneous

0 (%0)

25 (%59.5)

6 (%37.5)

31

0.298

 Homogeneous

0 (%0)

8 (%19)

6 (%37.5)

14

 Clumped

0 (%0)

2 (%4.8)

1 (%6.3)

3

 Clustered

1 (%100)

7 (%16.7)

3 (%18.8)

11

  1. P value less than 0.05 was considered as statistically significant. *: statistically significant. NME Nonmass enhancement