Validation of 18F-FDG PET/MRI and diffusion-weighted MRI for estimating the extent of peritoneal carcinomatosis in ovarian and endometrial cancer -a pilot study

Cancer Imaging

Antonina Bergman¹  Montserrat Alemany Ripoll¹  Håkan Ahlström²  Björg Jónsdóttir³  Karin Stålberg³  Ilvars Silins³  Inger Sundström Poromaa³ 

[1] Department of Surgical Sciences, Section of Radiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;Department of Surgical Sciences, Section of Radiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;Antaros, Medical AB, Uppsala, Sweden;Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, 75185, Uppsala, Sweden;

关键词: PET/MRI;    DW-MRI;    Ovarian cancer;    Peritoneal cancer index (PCI);    Carcinomatosis;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s40644-021-00399-2

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundThe extent of peritoneal carcinomatosis is difficult to estimate preoperatively, but a valid measure would be important in identifying operable patients.The present study set out to validate the usefulness of integrated 18F-FDG PET/MRI, in comparison with diffusion-weighted MRI (DW-MRI), for estimation of the extent of peritoneal carcinomatosis in patients with gynaecological cancer.MethodsWhole-body PET/MRI was performed on 34 patients with presumed carcinomatosis of gynaecological origin, all scheduled for surgery. Two radiologists evaluated the peritoneal cancer index (PCI) on PET/MRI and DW-MRI scans in consensus. The surgeon estimated PCI intraoperatively, which was used as the gold standard.ResultsMedian total PCI for PET/MRI (21.5) was closer to surgical PCI (24.5) (p = 0.6), than DW-MRI (median PCI 20.0, p = 0.007). However, both methods were highly correlated with the surgical PCI (PET/MRI: β = 0.94 p < 0.01, DW-MRI: β = 0.86, p < 0.01). PET/MRI was more accurate (p = 0.3) than DW-MRI (p = 0.001) when evaluating patients at primary diagnosis but no difference was noted in patients treated with chemotherapy. PET/MRI was superior in evaluating high tumour burden in inoperable patients. In the small bowel regions, there was a tendency of higher sensitivity but lower specificity in PET/MRI compared to DW-MRI.ConclusionsOur results suggest that FDG PET/MRI is superior to DW-MRI in estimating total spread of carcinomatosis in gynaecological cancer. Further, the greatest advantage of PET/MRI seems to be in patients at primary diagnosis and with high tumour burden, which suggest that it could be a useful tool when deciding about operability in gynaecological cancer.

【 授权许可】

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