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Table 4 The table shows that MR correctly assigned tumour stage in 36/48 cases with 75% of agreement with the histological results

From: Preoperative rectal cancer staging with phased-array MR

AP

T1

T2

T3

T4

TOT

MR

     

T1

10

0

0

0

10

T2

2

8

0

0

10

T3

0

8

14

0

22

T4

0

0

2

4

6

TOT

12

16

16

4

36 / 48

  1. 12 cases were overstaged: 2 patients were staged as T2 rather than T1; 8 cases were staged as T3 rather than T2; 2 lesions were classified as T4 but resulted T3 at histology.