The total-choline : creatine ratio has also been used as a measure of malignancy and combines measures of proliferative capacity (total-choline) with energy metabolism (tumours with high metabolic activity tend to have depleted energy stores and low creatine) (Martinez-Bisbal and Celda, 2009).
If this proves correct, FDG uptake represents one of the few objective measures of tumour malignancy.
Postmortem analyses were carried out to measure indicators of malignancy, tumoural metabolism and viability of the blood-brain barrier (BBB).
The decay constant of the Doppler waveform, which characterizes its decrease from systole to diastole as an exponential decay, has recently been presented as an additional measure of tumor malignancy.
And with equal measures of malice and malignancy he despised me for refusing to rebuke my mother.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASUREMENT: Rate of malignancy found by EUS+/-FNA.
Additionally, the imaging literature recommends that lymph nodes be measured in the short axis, since the short axis measurement is a more reproducible measurement and predictive of malignancy.
Study measures included the prevalence of malignancy, procedure/test use, and nodule pretest probability of malignancy as calculated by two previously validated models.
In a multivariable regression, we found that toe-to-room temperature gradient remained associated with death from MOF (OR 0.7 [0.9] 0.9], P < 0.001) after adjustment on acute severity, measured by the SOFA score (OR 1.5 [1.8] 1.8], P < 0.001), and after adjustment on morbidity, as measured by the presence of malignancy (OR 4.3 [16.7]16.7], P = 0.03) (Table 4).
Because the theoretical sensing depth of the probe ranged from 0.5 to 2.2 mm (see Clinical measurements of diffuse reflectance spectra), the study pathologist also provided a quantitative measure of the distance of malignancy from the margin ranging from 0 mm to 2 mm.
