The role of ADC difference value in identification between benign and malignant breast lesions / 实用放射学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To evaluate the difference of the surrounding normal tissue and lesion apparent diffusion coefficient (appar-ent diffusion coefficient,ADC)value in identify malignant and benign breast lesions.Methods There were 65 suspicious malignant breast lesions received by DWI scan and dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DEC-MRI)in 64 patients.The ADC value of breast lesions and peripherial glands were respectively measured,and then the difference was calculated.Receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC)analysis was used to evaluate the difference’s performance in identification between benign and malignant breast lesions.Re-sults There were 35 malignant lesions and 30 benign lesions.For the malignant lesions,the optimal threshold values for ADC of breast lesions were 1.28×10-3 mm2/s.The area under the ROC was 92.2%,the sensitivity and specificity were 76.7% and 94.3%.While the optimal threshold values for ADC were 0.63×10 -3 mm2/s in the benign lesions.The area under the ROC was 94.9%,the sensitivity and specificity were 88.6% and 96.7%.Conclusion ADC difference can reduce the influences of individual physiological factors,different machine,scanning parameters,which play an important role in identification between benign and malignant breast lesions.