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JOURNAL OF HEPATO-BILIARY-PANCREATIC SCIENCES
卷 20, 期 2, 页码 243-248出版社
SPRINGER JAPAN KK
DOI: 10.1007/s00534-011-0491-5
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Magnetic resonance imaging; Diffusionweighted imaging; Pancreatic cancer; Apparent diffusion coefficient
The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical usefulness of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) in patients with pancreatic cancer by comparing the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) value with clinicopathologic features. Twenty-two consecutive patients (12 men, 10 women; mean age 64.4 years) with pancreatic cancer underwent DWI before surgery. We retrospectively investigated the correlations between tumor ADC value and clinicopathologic features. Apparent diffusion coefficient value was significantly lower for pancreatic cancer than for noncancerous tissue (P < 0.001). Receiver operating characteristic analysis yielded an optimal ADC cutoff value of 1.21 x 10(-3) mm(2)/s to distinguish pancreatic cancer from noncancerous tissue. There was a significant negative correlation between ADC value and tumor size (r = -0.59, P = 0.004) and between ADC value and number of metastatic lymph nodes (r = -0.56, P = 0.007). Tumors with low ADC value had a significant tendency to show high portal venous system invasion (P = 0.02) and extrapancreatic nerve plexus invasion (P = 0.01). Apparent diffusion coefficient value appears to be a promising parameter for detecting pancreatic cancer and evaluating the degree of malignancy of pancreatic cancer.
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