ABSTRACT
A total of 68 patients with histologically proven endometrial cancer were preoperatively evaluated with a 3.0 T magnetic resonance (MR) unit.Two radiologists interpreted the depth of myometrial invasion on T2-weighted and diffusion-weighted(DW) MR (b =700 s/mm2) imaging.Myometrial tumor spread was classified as superficial (＜ 50％) or deep (≥50％ myometrial thickness).Statistical methods included Kappa statistics for reader agreement,accuracy assessment and receiver operating characteristic analysis for diagnostic performance comparison.For assessing the depth of myometrial invasion,the diagnostic accuracy,sensitivity and specificity were as follows:T2-weighted imaging-reader 1st,61.8％,60.0％ and 65.2％;reader 2nd,66.2％,64.4％ and 69.6％ ; T2-weighted combined DW imaging-reader 1st,86.8％,84.4％and 91.3％ ; reader 2nd,89.7％,86.7％ and 95.7％.Reader agreement was excellent for T2-weighted combined DW imaging (Kappa =0.818).For assessing deep myometrial involvement,ROC analysis showed that the diagnostic accuracy was significantly higher on T2-weighted combined DW imaging than that on T2-weighted imaging.The AUC (area under the curve) values measured by two readers on T2-weighted and T2-weighted combined DW imagings were 0.626,0.879 and 0.670,0.912 respectively.The addition of 3.0T MR diffusion-weighted to T2-weighted imaging can improve the diagnostic performance of MR imaging in the assessment of myometrial invasion.