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Whole-body three-dimensional short tau inversion recovery and T1-weighted in/opposed phase MRI in the detection of neuroblastoma bone marrow metastasis: comparative study with PET/CT utilising bone marrow biopsy as the reference standard.
Clinical Radiology 2023 July
AIM: To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of whole-body (WB) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) utilising three-dimensional (3D) short tau inversion recovery (STIR) and T1-weighted in/opposed-phase MRI in the detection of neuroblastoma bone marrow metastasis compared to 2-[18 F]-fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose (FDG) positron-emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT).
MATERIALS AND METHODS: A prospective study of 20 consecutive histopathologically proven neuroblastoma patients enrolled in this study from January 2021 to August 2022. WB MRI and FDG-PET/CT were performed for all cases. Bone marrow biopsy served as the standard of reference. Sensitivity, specificity, negative predictive value (NPV), positive predictive value (PPV), and accuracy were calculated. In addition, lesion-by-lesion analysis was performed and the number of bone marrow metastatic lesions in different body segments using both imaging methods was recorded and compared.
RESULTS: WB MRI correctly identified true positives and true negatives in all cases with a sensitivity and specificity of 100%. In contrast, FDG-PET/CT showed two false-negative cases that resulted in a sensitivity, specificity, PPV, NPV, and accuracy of 86.7%, 100%, 100%, 71.4%, and 92%, respectively. In the lesion-by-lesion analysis, WB MRI detected more (24.3%) bone marrow metastatic lesions than FDG-PET/CT.
CONCLUSION: Whole-body MRI can reliably identify neuroblastoma bone marrow infiltration, and could be an alternative to PET/CT in that regard.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: A prospective study of 20 consecutive histopathologically proven neuroblastoma patients enrolled in this study from January 2021 to August 2022. WB MRI and FDG-PET/CT were performed for all cases. Bone marrow biopsy served as the standard of reference. Sensitivity, specificity, negative predictive value (NPV), positive predictive value (PPV), and accuracy were calculated. In addition, lesion-by-lesion analysis was performed and the number of bone marrow metastatic lesions in different body segments using both imaging methods was recorded and compared.
RESULTS: WB MRI correctly identified true positives and true negatives in all cases with a sensitivity and specificity of 100%. In contrast, FDG-PET/CT showed two false-negative cases that resulted in a sensitivity, specificity, PPV, NPV, and accuracy of 86.7%, 100%, 100%, 71.4%, and 92%, respectively. In the lesion-by-lesion analysis, WB MRI detected more (24.3%) bone marrow metastatic lesions than FDG-PET/CT.
CONCLUSION: Whole-body MRI can reliably identify neuroblastoma bone marrow infiltration, and could be an alternative to PET/CT in that regard.
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