A total of 50 patients were deemed adequate for the study with patients excluded due to the lack of surgical management. The mean duration between MRI to surgery is 290 days.
Mean and median of the age of patients
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Age on MR
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Age on surgery
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Mean
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35.56
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36.6
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Median
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36
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36.5
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Table 2. Mean and median of the age of patients studied.
Study population
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Total patient
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85
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Total patient eligible
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50
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Table 3. Total amount of patients studied. 35 patients were excluded due to subsequent non-surgical management or lost to follow up.
Time duration between MRI to surgery in days (n=50)
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Mean
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290.2
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Median
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273.5
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Table 4. The mean and median of time duration between MRI to surgery.
Results obtained has shown that our local diagnostic accuracy is 80%, with sensitivity of 68% and specificity of 89%, with P-value of 0.0001.
Sensitivity
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0.682
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Specificity
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0.893
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Accuracy
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0.8
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PPV
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0.833
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NPV
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0.781
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P-value
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0.0001
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Table 5. The sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, positive predictive value and negative predictive value and P-value, analysis done using SPSS software.
Fig. 7: Bar chart shows the number of patients who has disease or no disease, who were diagnosed positive or negative on MRI.
References: Department of Radiology, University Hospitals North Midlands 2019
Fig. 8: T2w Sagittal view of Case 2. Deep endometriosis with serosal sigmoid involvement. T1w FATSAT showed high signal within the serosa in keeping with active haemorrhagic deposit.
References: Department of Radiology, University Hospitals North Midlands 2019
Fig. 9: T2w Axial view of Case 2. Deep endometriosis with serosal sigmoid involvement. T1w FATSAT showed high signal within the serosa in keeping with active haemorrhagic deposit.
References: Department of Radiology, University Hospitals North Midlands 2019
Fig. 10: T1w FATSAT axial view of Case 2. Deep endometriosis with serosal sigmoid involvement. T1w FATSAT showed high signal within the serosa in keeping with active haemorrhagic deposit.
References: Department of Radiology, University Hospitals North Midlands 2019
Fig. 11: T2w Sagittal view of Case 3. Deep infiltrating endometriosis with full thickness involvement.
References: Department of Radiology, University Hospitals North Midlands 2019
Fig. 12: T2w Axial view of Case 3. Deep infiltrating endometriosis with full thickness involvement.
References: Department of Radiology, University Hospitals North Midlands 2019