Intraoperative US in patients undergoing surgery for liver neoplasms: Comparison with MR imaging
Intraoperative US in patients undergoing surgery for liver neoplasms: Comparison with MR imaging
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DOI:
10.1148/radiol.2323030896
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发表时间:
2004-09-01
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影响因子:
19.7
通讯作者:
Mueller, PR
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作者:
Sahani, DV;Kalva, SP;Mueller, PR
PURPOSE: To retrospectively compare intraoperative ultrasonography (US) and preoperative magnetic resonance (MR) imaging with contrast material enhancement for the depiction of liver lesions in patients undergoing hepatic resection.MATERIALS AND METHODS: A radiologist (D.V.S.) and a surgeon (K.K.T.) retrospectively identified 79 patients (36 female and 43 male patients; age range, 10-78 years; mean age, 57 years) who had undergone surgical resection for primary liver tumor or metastasis and had also undergone preoperative contrast-enhanced MR imaging within 6 weeks before surgery. MR imaging was performed with a 1.5-T system. Dedicated intraoperative US of the liver was performed or supervised by a gastrointestinal radiologist using a 7.5-MHz linear-array transducer, after adequate hepatic mobilization by the surgeon. Histopathologic evaluation of the 159 resected hepatic lesions served as the reference standard. The lesion distribution included colon cancer metastasis (n = 122), hepatocellular carcinoma (n = 23), cholangiocarcinoma (n = 6), cavernous hemangioma (n = 4), focal nodular hyperplasia (n 2), hamartoma (n = 1), and metastatic embryonal sarcoma (n = 1).RESULTS: Of 159 lesions, 138 (86.7%) were identified at both MR imaging and intraoperative US. Twelve additional lesions (7.5%) in 10 patients were detected only at intraoperative US (eight metastases, one hepatocellular carcinoma, one cholangiocarcinoma, one hemangioma, and one biliary hamartoma). Both modalities failed to depict nine lesions (5.6%) (four metastases, four hepatocellular carcinomas, and one cholangiocarcinoma). The sensitivities of MR imaging and intraoperative US for liver lesion depiction were 86.7% and 94.3%. respectively. Surgical management was altered on the basis of the intraoperative US findings in only three of 10 patients (4%).CONCLUSION: Contrast-enhanced MR imaging is as sensitive as intraoperative US in depicting liver lesions before hepatic resection. (C) RSNA 2004.