Cervical lymphadenopathy: can the histogram analysis of apparent diffusion coefficient help to differentiate between lymphoma and squamous cell carcinoma in patients with unknown clinical primary tumor?
Radiol Med
; 124(1): 19-26, 2019 Jan.
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ABSTRACT
PURPOSE:
To retrospectively evaluate the value of whole-lesion histogram analysis of apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) maps in differentiating between lymphoma and metastatic squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of unknown clinical primary in neck nodes.METHODS:
A total of 39 patients, 20 affected by lymphoma and 19 affected by metastatic non-nasopharyngeal SCC, were included in this retrospective study. All patients underwent MR imaging with a 1.5 T scanner system, including diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) with three different b values (b = 0, 500 and 800 s/mm2). The entire tumor volume was manually delineated on the ADC maps, using the T2-weighted images and DWIs with b = 800 s/mm2 as a guide to the lesion location. The Mann-Whitney rank-sum test for independent samples was performed to compare the histogram parameters of patients with lymphoma and SCC.RESULTS:
The SCCs showed significantly higher median ADC (ADCmedian) and mean ADC (ADCmean) values, compared to lymphomas (p < 0.001), while they exhibited lower kurtosis and skewness without reaching significance (p = 0.066 and 0.148, respectively). The ADCmean and ADCmedian had the best discriminative powers for differentiating lymphoma and SCC, with an area under the curve of 87% and 85%, respectively. The optimal cutoff values for ADCmean and ADCmedian as predictors for lymphoma were ≤ 0.83 × 10-3 mm2/s and ≤ 0.73 × 10-3 mm2/s, respectively.CONCLUSIONS:
The whole-lesion ADC histogram analysis of cervical lymphadenopathy may help to discriminate lymphomas from non-nasopharyngeal SCC in patients with unknown clinical primary tumor.Palavras-chave
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Assunto principal:
Imagem de Difusão por Ressonância Magnética
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Linfadenopatia
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Carcinoma de Células Escamosas de Cabeça e Pescoço
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Linfoma
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Aged
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Aged80
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2019
Tipo de documento:
Article