Correlation Analysis of Pathological Features and Axillary Lymph Node Metastasis in Patients with Invasive Breast Cancer

Table 3

Comparison of MRI parameters between the two groups.

Index	ALNM group ( =40)	NALNM group ( =82)		value
ADC (10^-3 mm^2/s)	0.90 ± 0.16	0.89 ± 0.18	0.315	0.753
Early enhanced rate (, %)			1.194	0.275^#
>120	8 (20.00%)	24 (29.27%)
≤120	32 (80.00%)	58 (70.73%)
TIC category (, %)			3.808	0.149^#
Plateau	9 (22.50%)	25 (30.49%)
Washout	28 (70.00%)	43 (52.44%)
Persistently enhancing	3 (7.50%)	14 (17.07%)

ALNM: axillary lymph node metastasis; NALNM: non-axillary lymph node metastasis; TIC: time-intensity curve; ADC: apparent diffusion coefficient; , compared by -test; ^#, compared by chi-square test.