Abstract
AIM: To evaluate diagnostic performance of gadofosveset ( GDF)-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in addition to T2-weighted (T2W) MRI for nodal (re) staging in newly diagnosed breast cancer patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Ninety patients underwent axillary T2W-and GDF-MRI. Two radiologists independently scored each lymph node; first on T2W-MRI, subsequently adjusting their score on GDF-MRI. Diagnostic performance parameters were calculated on node-by-node and patient-by-patient validation with histopathology as the reference standard. Furthermore, learning curve analysis for reading GDF-MRI was performed. RESULTS: In patient-by-patient validation, overall reader performances for T2W-and GDF-MRI were similar with area under the receiver operating characteristic curves (AUC) of 0.75 and 0.77 (p = 0.731) for reader 1 and 0.79 and 0.72 (p = 0.156) for reader 2. For node-by-node validation, AUC values of T2W-and GDF-MRI were 0.76 and 0.82 (p = 0.018) and 0.77 and 0.77 (p = 0.998) for reader 1 and 2. The AUC for reader 1 was 0.71 for first one-third of nodes evaluated, improving to 0.80 and 0.95 for the next and last one-third, respectively. Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value (NPV) improved from 38%, 89%, 56%, and 79% to 60%, 93%, 64%, and 92%. The AUC of reader 2 improved from 0.69 to 0.79. CONCLUSION: The present study confirmed that GDF-MRI, in addition to T2W-MRI, has potential as a non-invasive method for nodal (re) staging in breast cancer. (C) 2017 The Royal College of Radiologists. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 168-175 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Clinical Radiology |
Volume | 73 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Feb 2018 |
Keywords
- LYMPH-NODES
- NEOADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY
- SYSTEMIC TREATMENT
- ARM LYMPHEDEMA
- DISSECTION
- BIOPSY
- TRIAL
- METASTASES
- MICROMETASTASES
- METAANALYSIS