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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.