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. 2023 May;50(6):1709-1719.
doi: 10.1007/s00259-022-06105-z. Epub 2023 Jan 26.

11C-methionine PET imaging characteristics in children with diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas and relationship to survival and H3 K27M mutation status

Xiaobin Zhao #  1 , Deling Li #  2   3 , Zhen Qiao  1 , Kai Wang  1 , Qian Chen  1 , Changcun Pan  2 , Yuliang Wu  4 , Dan Xiao  3 , Tianshu Xi  3 , Liwei Zhang  5   6   7 , Lin Ai  8
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11C-methionine PET imaging characteristics in children with diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas and relationship to survival and H3 K27M mutation status

Xiaobin Zhao et al. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2023 May.

Abstract

Purpose: This study aimed to describe 11C-methionine (11C-MET) PET imaging characteristics in patients with paediatric diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) and correlate them with survival and H3 K27M mutation status.

Methods: We retrospectively analysed 98 children newly diagnosed with DIPG who underwent 11C-MET PET. PET imaging characteristics evaluated included uptake intensity, uniformity, metabolic tumour volume (MTV), and total lesion methionine uptake (TLMU). The maximum, mean, and peak of the tumour-to-background ratio (TBR), calculated as the corresponding standardised uptake values (SUV) divided by the mean reference value, were also recorded. The associations between the PET imaging characteristics and clinical outcomes in terms of progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) and H3 K27M mutation status were assessed, respectively.

Results: In univariate analysis, imaging characteristics significantly associated with shorter PFS and OS included a higher uniformity grade, higher TBRs, larger MTV, and higher TLMU. In multivariate analysis, larger MTV at diagnosis, shorter symptom duration, and no treatment were significantly correlated with shorter PFS and OS. The PET imaging features were not correlated with H3 K27M mutation status.

Conclusion: Although several imaging features were significantly associated with PFS and OS, only MTV, indicating the size of the active tumour, was identified as a strong independent prognostic factor.

Keywords: 11C-methionine PET; DIPG; Diffuse midline glioma; Paediatric; Prognostic factor.

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