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. 2018 Jul;28(7):2781-2789.
doi: 10.1007/s00330-017-5259-0. Epub 2018 Feb 5.

Intravoxel incoherent motion magnetic resonance imaging for differentiating metastatic and non-metastatic lymph nodes in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

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Intravoxel incoherent motion magnetic resonance imaging for differentiating metastatic and non-metastatic lymph nodes in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

Dailin Rong et al. Eur Radiol. 2018 Jul.

Abstract

Objectives: To evaluate the diagnostic potential of intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) DWI for differentiating metastatic and non-metastatic lymph node stations (LNS) in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC).

Methods: 59 LNS histologically diagnosed following surgical resection from 15 patients were included. IVIM DWI with 12 b values was added to the standard MRI protocol. Evaluation of parameters was performed pre-operatively and included the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC), pure diffusion coefficient (D), pseudo-diffusion coefficient (D*) and perfusion fraction (f). Diagnostic performance of ADC, D, D* and f for differentiating between metastatic and non-metastatic LNS was evaluated using ROC analysis.

Results: Metastatic LNS had significantly lower D, D*, f and ADC values than the non-metastatic LNS (p< 0.01). The best diagnostic performance was found in D, with an area under the ROC curve of 0.979, while the area under the ROC curve values of D*, f and ADC were 0.867, 0.855 and 0.940, respectively. The optimal cut-off values for distinguishing metastatic and non-metastatic lymph nodes were D = 1.180 × 10-3 mm2/s; D* = 14.750 × 10-3 mm2/s, f = 20.65 %, and ADC = 1.390 × 10-3 mm2/s.

Conclusion: IVIM DWI is useful for differentiating between metastatic and non-metastatic LNS in PDAC.

Key points: • IVIM DWI is feasible for diagnosing LN metastasis in PDAC. • Metastatic LNS has lower D, D*, f, ADC values than non-metastatic LNS. • D-value from IVIM model has best diagnostic performance, followed by ADC value. • D* has the lowest AUC value.

Keywords: Diffusion-weighted imaging; Intravoxel incoherent motion; Lymph node station; Magnetic resonance imaging; Pancreatic ductal carcinoma.

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