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MEDICINE
Volume 99, Issue 35, Pages -Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000021829
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F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography; computed tomography; pancreatic cancer; prognosis; texture analysis
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Imaging parameters including metabolic or textural parameters during F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) are being used for evaluation of malignancy. However, their utility for prognosis prediction has not been thoroughly investigated. Here, we evaluated the prognosis prediction ability of imaging parameters from preoperative FDGPET/CT in operable pancreatic cancer patients. Sixty pancreatic cancer patients (male:female = 36:24, age = 67.2 +/- 10.5 years) who had undergone FDGPET/CT before the curative intent surgery were enrolled. Clinico-pathologic parameters, metabolic parameters from FDGPET/CT; maximal standard uptake value (SUVmax), glucose-incorporated SUVmax (GI-SUVmax), metabolic tumor volume, total-lesion glycolysis, and 53 textural parameters derived from imaging analysis software (MaZda version 4.6) were compared with overall survival. All the patients underwent curative resection. Mean and standard deviation of overall follow-up duration was 16.12 +/- 9.81months. Among them, 39 patients had died at 13.46 +/- 8.82 months after operation, whereas 21 patients survived with the follow-up duration of 18.56 +/- 9.97 months. In the univariate analysis, Tumor diameter >= 4 cm (P = .003), Preoperative Carbohydrate antigen 19-9 >= 37 U/mL (P = .034), number of metastatic lymph node (P = .048) and GI-SUVmax (P = .004) were significant parameters for decreased overall survival. Among the textural parameters, kurtosis3D (P = .052), and skewness3D (P = .064) were potentially significant predictors in the univariate analysis. However, in multivariate analysis only GI-SUVmax (P = .026) and combined operation (P = .001) were significant independent predictors of overall survival. The current research result indicates that metabolic parameter (GI-SUVmax) from FDGPET/CT, and combined operation could predict the overall survival of surgically resected pancreatic cancer patients. Other metabolic or textural imaging parameters were not significant predictors for overall survival of localized pancreatic cancer.
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