65 Myocardial fibrosis in esophageal cancer patients to- patient variance. Mixed-model analyses were performed using MLwiN (Version 2.22, Centre for Multilevel Modelling, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom). Results Patients Two EC survivor groups participated: 20 patients that received nCRT prior to surgery and 20 patients that were treated with surgery alone as a control group. After exclusion (figure 2), 16 patients of the control group and 17 patients of the nCRT group were suitable for analysis. In one control patient, the basal slice was scanned to close to the mitral valve, because of this partial volume artefact basal segments were excluded (native and post contrast T1 values and ECV calculation). Due to ECG-triggering artefacts, we excluded some myocardial segments (figure 2) from post-contrast T1 measures and ECV calculations. 5
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