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Table 3 Terms with synonymous or multiple equivalent RadLex matches

From: Determining the applicability of the RSNA radiology lexicon (RadLex) in high-grade glioma MRI reporting—a preliminary study on 20 consecutive cases with newly diagnosed glioblastoma

Term from radiology report

Equivalent Radlex terms (Radlex ID)

Frequency (n = 20)

Cella media

Body of lateral ventricle (7125)

2 (10.0%)

Contact

Adjacent (5849)

2 (10.0%)

Infiltration

Invasive (5680)/tumor invasion of adjacent structure (39,257)

2 (10.0%)

Maximum expansion

Maximum size (49,883)/diameter (13,432) + maximum (39,164)

3 (15.0%)

Narrow band

Thin rim (43,309)

1 (5.0%)

Space occupying/mass effect

Effect of mass on surrounding tissue (34,379)

4 (20.0%)

Speckled

Punctate (5900)/patchy (5704)

1 (5.0%)

Topographic relationship

Adjacent (5849)

1 (5.0%)

Weak/faint

Minor (5691)/low (46,059)

1 (5.0%)

  1. This table shows all terms extracted from 20 consecutive glioblastoma multiforme MRI reports which have corresponding non-verbatim/synonymous or multiple equivalent RadLex entity matches