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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
12
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-12-28
pubmed:abstractText
We evaluated the power of DWIBS in patients with postoperative lymph node recurrence of esophageal cancer and compared with FDG-PET findings. Forty-seven suspected lesions by MDCT were enrolled. No significant difference between DWIBS and PET was observed in sensitivity (95% vs 97%), PPV (83% vs 90%) and overall accuracy rate (81% vs 87%). The ADCs (x10(-3) mm2/s) of recurrent nodes, primary cancer and normal esophagus were 1.124, 1.058 and 2.079, respectively. ADCs of recurrent nodes were significantly lower than those of normal esophagus (p<0.0001). The cut-off ADC line of 1.5 revealed 100% overall accuracy for separating the recurrent lesion from normal esophagus. Noninvasive DWIBS may become a valid modality to discriminate nodal recurrence of esophageal cancer by no means inferior to PET.
pubmed:language
jpn
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0385-0684
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
36
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2468-70
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
[Diffusion-weighted MR imaging for postoperative nodal recurrence of esophageal squamous cell cancer in comparison with FDG-PET].
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Frontier Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, English Abstract