磁共振扩散加权成像在宫颈癌同步放化疗后残余癌判断中的价值

目的：评价磁共振扩散加权成像(DWI)用于判断宫颈癌同步放化疗治疗结束后有无残余癌灶的价值。方法回顾性收集因宫颈癌行同步性放化疗、结束后再行子宫切除手术的患者25例。分别评价常规 T2 WI、DWI 联合 T2 WI 对治疗宫颈癌灶残余的判断情况,测量表观扩散系数(ADC)值。根据手术切除病理结果为金标准,分别计算分析 T2 WI 图像、DWI+T2 WI 图像、ADC值用于判断残余灶的准确性。结果25例患者手术后病理可见癌残余9例,无癌残余16例。T2 WI 单独阅片、DWI+T2 WI 联合阅片判断的准确性分别为56.0%和72.0%,敏感性77.8%和66.7%,特异性43.8%和75.0%,联合 DWI 后判断的准确性和特异性提高(P<0.05),敏感性稍下降。ADC 值在有无残余2组之间无显著性差异。结论 MRI 可以用于评价宫颈癌同步放化疗结束后的残余癌灶情况,DWI 具有良好的辅助价值。常规 T2 WI 联合 DWI 后可以显著提高特异性及准确性,但仍然存在降低敏感性的风险。

Diffusion-weighted MRI in residual foci evaluation of uterine cervical cancer after chemoradiation therapy

Objective To evaluate the usefulness of diffusion-weighted MR combined with routine T2 WI in finding the possible residual foci in uterine cervical cancers after radical chemo-radiation therapy.Methods This was a retrospective study including 25 consecutive cervical cancer patients who received hysterectomy after radical chemo-radiation therapy.All of them underwent MR examinations post-chemoradiation and just before operation.Images of T2 WI alone and those of T2 WI combining DWI were evaluated respectively by 2 senior radiologists,in order to decide whether there were residual tumors.ADC values were also measured.Taking the post-operation pathological results as the gold standard,the accuracies,sensitivities and specificities of T2 WI alone,T2 WI combining DWI,and ADC values were all calculated.Results In those 25 patients,9 were found with foci of residual cancer in operative pathology,while no cancer cells were found in the other 1 6 patients.The accuracy,sensitivity and specificity in finding the positive residual cancer using T2 WI alone were 56.0%,77.8% and 43.8%,comparing with 72.0%,66.7% and 75.0% in T2 WI combining DWI.The accuracy and specificity increased with statistical significance after combining DWI (P =0.01 6 for accuracy,P =0.031 for specificity),while the sensitivity decreased but did not reach statistically significant level (P =0.099).No difference in ADC values was found.Conclusion DWI can be used as a supplementary sequence in finding the existence of residual tumors of cervical cancer after radical chemo-radiation therapy.Routine T2 WI combing DWI increased the specificity and accuracy,but still facing the risk of decreasing sensitivity.