Accuracy of MRI and (18F)-FDG PET/CT for Restaging After Preoperative Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy for Rectal Cancer
- Authors
- Cho, Yong Beom; Chun, Ho-Kyung; Kim, Min Ju; Choi, Joon Young; Park, Chi-Min; Kim, Byung-Tae; Lee, Soon Jin; Yun, Seong Hyeon; Kim, Hee Cheol; Lee, Woo Yong
- Issue Date
- 12월-2009
- Publisher
- SPRINGER
- Citation
- WORLD JOURNAL OF SURGERY, v.33, no.12, pp.2688 - 2694
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- WORLD JOURNAL OF SURGERY
- Volume
- 33
- Number
- 12
- Start Page
- 2688
- End Page
- 2694
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/118829
- DOI
- 10.1007/s00268-009-0248-3
- ISSN
- 0364-2313
- Abstract
- Background Performing a restaging work-up with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and F-18-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography (F-18-FDG PET/CT) can provide information about the effects that are related to preoperative concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT). The purpose of the present study was to investigate the accuracy of MRI and F-18-FDG PET/CT for restaging after preoperative CCRT for rectal cancer. Methods Between April 2005 and February 2006, 30 patients with histologically proven rectal adenocarcinoma were included in this study. Pelvic MRI and F-18 kappa-FDG PET/CT were performed to clinically restage the tumor after CCRT. The results of the pathologic staging were correlated with those of the MRI and 18F-FDG PET/CT after CCRT. Two patients underwent transanal endoscopic microsurgery after CCRT, and they were excluded when the N category was evaluated. Results The overall accuracy of MRI for the T category was 67% (kappa = 0.422, P = 0.003), whereas overstaging and understaging occurred in 30 and 3% of the patients, respectively. For the N category, accurate staging was noted in 75% (kappa = 0.410, P = 0.030) of all the patients, whereas 14% were overstaged and 11% were understaged. The overall accuracy rates for the T and N categories with performing F-18-FDG PET/CT were 60% (kappa = 0.372, P = 0.004) and 71% (kappa = 0.097, P = 0.549), respectively. While MRI could not predict any patient who showed a pathologic complete response, F-18-FDG PET/CT predicted three of the four patients who showed a pathologic complete response after preoperative CCRT. Furthermore, F-18-FDG PET/CT identified distant metastases with an accuracy rate of 97%. Conclusions For restaging patients with rectal cancer after preoperative CCRT, MRI is a useful diagnostic modality to predict both the T and N categories. F-18-FDG PET/CT is helpful in predicting a pathologic complete response and in finding metastasis after preoperative CCRT.
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