Pancreatic Tumors: Diagnostic Patterns by 3D Gradient-Echo Post Contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Pathologic Correlation

Elsayes, Khaled M.; Narra, Vamsidhar R.; Abbass, Hatem A. Abou El; Aly, Tarek S.; Radwan, Sherif M.; Chen, Zong Ming

doi:10.1067/j.cpradiol.2006.02.002

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“…4). Moreover, according to several, recently published articles on 3D MRI, dynamic gadolinium-enhanced MR using a 3D-GRE sequence was helpful in detecting pancreatic cancer with a high degree of confidence regarding the accuracy, as well as in differentiating pancreatic carcinoma from chronic pancreatitis, or in the diagnosis of various focal pancreatic tumors (38,39).…”

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Preoperative evaluation of pancreatic cancer: Comparison of gadolinium‐enhanced dynamic MRI with MR cholangiopancreatography versus MDCT

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Choi

et al. 2009

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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Purpose:To determine the accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) including dynamic imaging using three-dimensional gradient-echo (3D-GRE) sequences and MR cholangiopancreatograpy (MRCP) compared with that of multidetector row CT (MDCT) with regard to resectability in pancreas cancer. Materials and Methods:From February 2004 to July 2008, 54 patients (32 men, 22 women: age range, 28 -83 years; mean age, 63.1 years old) with surgically proven pancreatic carcinoma, who had undergone preoperative gadolinium-enhanced 3D-GRE MRI with MRCP and triplephase MDCT, were included in this retrospective study. Two, clinically experienced attending radiologists independently reviewed the two image sets. These readers evaluated the tumor conspicuity, presence of vascular invasion, choledochal and duodenal invasion, lymph node metastases, distant metastasis, and tumor resectability. The results were compared with the surgical and histopathologic findings using receiver operating characteristic analysis (Az) and kappa statistics. Results:Curative resections were performed on 42 patients. Regarding the tumor conspicuity, MRI had a significantly higher Az value compared with MDCT according to both reviewers (P Ͻ 0.05). The accuracy of resectability was Az ϭ 0.753 and 0.768 on MRI and Az ϭ 0.829 and 0.762 on MDCT for each reviewer, and the difference in the accuracy of resectability was not significant between MRI and MDCT for either reviewer (P Ͼ 0.05). Two imaging sets showed a similar diagnostic performance in the evaluation of vascular involvement, lymph node metastasis, and distant metastasis.Conclusion: Dynamic 3D-GRE MRI with MRCP shows superior tumor conspicuity and similar diagnostic performance compared with MDCT in evaluating the resectability of pancreatic cancer.

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