Locally Advanced Rectal Carcinoma Treated with Preoperative Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy: Preliminary Analysis of Diffusion-weighted MR Imaging for Early Detection of Tumor Histopathologic Downstaging
Locally Advanced Rectal Carcinoma Treated with Preoperative Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy: Preliminary Analysis of Diffusion-weighted MR Imaging for Early Detection of Tumor Histopathologic Downstaging
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DOI:
10.1148/radiol.2541082230
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发表时间:
2010-01-01
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影响因子:
19.7
通讯作者:
Zhang, Xiao-Yan
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作者:
Sun, Ying-Shi;Zhang, Xiao-Peng;Zhang, Xiao-Yan
Purpose: To determine whether changes in apparent diffusion coefficients (ADCs) of rectal carcinoma obtained 1 week after the beginning of chemotherapy and radiation therapy (CRT) correlate with tumor histopathologic downstaging after preoperative CRT.Materials and Methods: This prospective study was approved by an institutional review board; informed consent was obtained from all patients. Thirty-seven patients (mean age, 54.7 years; 13 women, 24 men) with primary rectal carcinoma who were undergoing preoperative CRT were recruited for the study. Diffusion-weighted (DW) magnetic resonance (MR) imaging was performed with a 1.5-T MR imager in all patients before therapy, at the end of the 1st and 2nd week of therapy, and before surgery. Tumor ADCs were calculated. Linear mixed-effects modeling was applied to analyze change in ADCs and volumes following treatment.Results: Patients were assigned to the tumor downstaged group (n = 17) or the tumor nondownstaged group (n = 20) on the basis of histopathologic examination results following surgery. Before CRT, the mean tumor ADC in the downstaged group was lower than that in the nondownstaged group (1.07 x 10(-3) mm(2)/sec +/- 0.13 [standard deviation] vs 1.19 x 10(-3) mm(2)/sec +/- 0.15, F = 6.91, P=.013). At the end of the 1st week of CRT, the mean tumor ADC increased significantly from 1.07 x 10(-3)mm(2)/sec +/- 0.13 to 1.32 x 10(-3) mm(2)/sec +/- 0.16 (F = 37.63, P