Differentiation of metastatic versus non-metastatic mediastinal lymph nodes in patients with non-small cell lung cancer using respiratory-triggered short inversion time inversion recovery (STIR) turbo spin-echo MR imaging

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 216-224

  Takenaka, Daisuke ^a   Ohno, Yoshiharu ^a   Hatabu, Hiroto ^b   Ohbayashi, Chiho ^c   Yoshimura, Masahiro ^a   Ohkita, Yutaka ^a   Sugimura, Kazuro ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c KOBE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lung; MR, Lymph node; STIR, Staging

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; TUMORS;

SIGNAL INTENSITY;

RADIOLOGY;

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; STUDENT T TEST;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036895655     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0720-048X(02)00271-1     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Webb W.R., Gatsonis C., Zerhouni E.A., et al. CT and MR imaging in staging non-small cell bronchogenic carcinoma: report of the Radiologic Diagnostic Oncology Group. Radiology. 178:1991;705-713.
2. McLoud T.C., Bourgouin P.M., Greenberg R.W., et al. Bronchogenic carcinoma: analysis of staging in the mediastinum with CT by correlative lymph node mapping and sampling. Radiology. 182:1992;319-323.
3. Webb W.R., Sarin M., Zerhouni E.A., Heelan R.T., Glazer G.M., Gatsonis C. Interobserver variability in CT and MR staging of lung cancer. J. Comput. Assist. Tomogr. 17:1993;841-846.
4. Glazer G.M., Orringer M.B., Gross B.H., Quint L.E. The mediastinum in non-small cell lung cancer: CT-surgical correlation. Am. J. Roentgenol. 142:1984;1101-1105.
5. Martini N., Heelan R., Westcott J., et al. Comparative merits of conventional, computed tomographic, and magnetic resonance imaging in assessing mediastinal involvement in surgically confirmed lung carcinoma. J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 90:1985;639-648.
6. Musset D., Grenier P., Carette M.F., et al. Primary lung cancer staging: prospective comparative study of MR imaging with CT. Radiology. 160:1986;607-611.
7. Poon P.Y., Bronskill M.J., Henkelman R.M., et al. Mediastinal lymph node metastases from bronchogenic carcinoma: detection with MR imaging and CT. Radiology. 162:1987;651-656.
8. Laurent F., Drouillard J., Dorcier F., et al. Bronchogenic carcinoma staging: CT versus MR imaging. Assessment with surgery. Eur. J. Cardiothorac. Surg. 2:1988;31-36.
9. Grenier P., Dubray B., Carette M.F., Frija G., Musset D., Chastang C. Preoperative thoracic staging of lung cancer: CT and MR evaluation. Diagn. Intervent. Radiol. 1:1989;23-28.
10. Glazer G.M., Gross B.H., Aisen A.M., Quint L.E., Francis I.R., Orringer M.B. Imaging of the pulmonary hilum: a prospective comparative study in patients with lung cancer. Am. J. Roentgenol. 145:1985;245-248.
11. Gupta N.C., Graeber G.M., Bishop H.A. Comparative efficacy of positron emission tomography with fluorodeoxyglucose in evaluation of small (<1 cm), intermediate (1 to 3 cm), and large (>3 cm) lymph node lesions. Chest. 117:2000;773-778.
12. Higashi K., Nishikawa T., Seki H., et al. Comparison of fluorine-18-FDG PET and thallium-201 SPECT in evaluation of lung cancer. J. Nucl. Med. 39:1998;9-15.
13. Patz E.F. Jr, Lowe V.J., Goodman P.C., Herndon J. Thoracic nodal staging with PET imaging with 18FDG in patients with bronchogenic carcinoma. Chest. 108:1995;1617-1621.
14. Wahl R.L., Quint L.E., Greenough R.L., Meyer C.R., White R.I., Orringer M.B. Staging of mediastinal non-small cell lung cancer with FDG PET, CT, and fusion images: preliminary prospective evaluation. Radiology. 191:1994;371-377.
15. Patz E.F. Jr, Lowe V.J., Hoffman J.M., et al. Focal pulmonary abnormalities: evaluation with F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose PET scanning. Radiology. 188:1993;487-490.
16. Dewan N.A., Gupta N.C., Redepenning L.S., Phalen J.J., Frick M.P. Diagnstic efficiency of PET-FDG imaging in solitary pulmonary nodules. Chest. 104:1993;997-1002.
17. Fujimoto K., Edamitsu O., Meno S., et al. MR diagnosis for metastasis or non-metastasis of mediastinal and hilar lymph nodes in cases of primary lung cancer: detectability, signal intensity, and MR-pathologic correlation. Nippon. Acta Radiol. 55:1995;162-171.
18. Walker R., Kessar P., Blanchard R., et al. Turbo STIR magnetic resonance imaging as a whole-body screening tool for metastases in patients with breast carcinoma: preliminary clinical experience. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging. 11:2000;343-350.
19. Viano A.M., Gronemeyer S.A., Haliloglu M., Hoffer F.A. Improved MR imaging for patients with metallic implants. Magn. Reson. Imaging. 18:2000;287-295.
20. Yamashita Y., Yokoyama T., Tomiguchi S., Takahashi M., Ando M. MR imaging of focal lung lesions: elimination of flow and motion artifact by breath-hold ECG-gated and black-blood techniques on T2-weighted turbo SE and STIR sequences. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging. 9:1999;691-698.
21. Eustace S., Tello R., DeCarvalho V., Carey J., Melhem E., Yucel E.K. Whole body turbo STIR MRI in unknown primary tumor detection. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging. 8:1998;751-753.
22. Nakatsu M., Hatabu H., Itoh H., et al. Comparison of short inversion time inversion recovery (STIR) and fat-saturated (chemsat) techniques for background fat intensity suppression in cervical and thoracic MR imaging. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging. 11:2000;56-60.
23. Okada M., Tsubota N., Yoshimura M., Miyamoto Y., Matsuoka H. Induction therapy for non-small cell lung cancer with involved mediastinal nodes in multiple stations. Chest. 118:2000;123-128.
24. Cymbalista M., Waysberg A., Zacharias C., et al. CT demonstration of the 1996 AJCC-UICC regional lymph node classification for lung cancer staging. Radiographics. 19:1999;899-900.
25. Martini N., Flehinger B.J., Zaman M.B., Beattie E.J. Jr. Results of resection in non-oat cell carcinoma of the lung with mediastinal lymph node metastases. Ann. Surg. 198:1983;386-397.
26. Graham A.N., Chan K.J., Pastorino U., Goldstraw P. Systematic nodal dissection in the intrathoracic staging of patients with non-small cell lung cancer. J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 117:1999;246-251.
27. Swensen S.J., Brown L.R., Colby T.V., Weaver A.L. Pulmonary nodules: CT evaluation of enhancement with iodinated contrast material. Radiology. 194:1995;393-398.
28. Naidich D.P., Webb R.W., Muller N.L., Krinsky G.A., Zerhouni E.A., Siegelman S.S. Lung cancer. Naidich D.P., Webb R.W., Muller N.L., Krinsky G.A., Zerhouni E.A., Siegelman S.S. Computed tomography and magnetic resonance of thorax. 3rd ed. 1999;343-380 Lippincott-Raven, Philadelphia, PA.
29. Fossel E.T., Brodsky G., deLayre J.L., Wilson R.E. Nuclear magnetic resonance for the differentiation of benign and malignant breast tissues and axillary lymph nodes. Ann. Surg. 198:1983;541-545.
30. Wiener J.I., Chako A.C., Merten C.W., Gross S., Coffey E.L., Stein H.L. Breast and axillary tissue MR imaging: correlation of signal intensities and relaxation times with pathologic findings. Radiology. 160:1986;299-305.
31. Glazer G.M., Orringer M.B., Chenevert T.L., et al. Mediastinal lymph nodes: relaxation time/pathologic correlation and implications in staging of lung cancer with MR imaging. Radiology. 168:1988;429-431.
32. Bottomley P.A., Hardy C.J., Argersinger R.E., Allen-Moore G. A review of 1H nuclear magnetic resonance relaxation in pathology: are T1 and T2 diagnostic. Med. Phys. 14:1987;1-37.
33. Bydder G.M., Hajnal J.V., Young I. Use of the inversion recovery pulse sequence. Stark D.D., Bradley W.G. Magnetic resonance imaging. 3rd ed. 1999;69-86 Mosby, St. Louis.
34. Cai J., Ikeguchi M., Tsujitani S., Maeta M., Liu J., Kaibara N. Significant correlation between micrometastasis in the lymph nodes and reduced expression of E-cadherin in early gastric cancer. Gastric Cancer. 4:2001;66-74.
35. Okada Y., Fujiwara Y., Yamamoto H., et al. Genetic detection of lymph node micrometastases in patients with gastric carcinoma by multiple-marker reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction assay. Cancer. 92:2001;2056-2064.