Abstract
Objectives
We evaluated the diagnostic performance of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in terms of identifying extramural venous invasion (EMVI) in rectal cancer patients with preoperative chemoradiotherapy (CRT) and its prognostic significance.
Methods
During 2008–2010, 200 patients underwent surgery following preoperative CRT for rectal cancer. Two radiologists independently reviewed all pre- and post-CRT MRI retrospectively. We investigated diagnostic performance of pre-CRT MR-EMVI (MR-EMVI) and post-CRT MR-EMVI (yMR-EMVI), based on pathological EMVI as the standard of reference. We assessed correlation between MRI findings and patients’ prognosis, such as disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS). Additionally, subgroup analysis in MR- or yMR-EMVI-positive patients was performed to confirm the significance of the severity of EMVI in MRI on patient’s prognosis.
Results
The sensitivity and specificity of yMR-EMVI were 76.19% and 79.75% (area under the curve: 0.830), respectively. In univariate analysis, yMR-EMVI was the only significant MRI factor in DFS (P = 0.027). The mean DFS for yMR-EMVI (+) patients was significantly less than for yMR-EMVI (−) patients: 57.56 months versus 72.46 months.
Conclusion
yMR-EMVI demonstrated good diagnostic performance. yMR-EMVI was the only significant EMVI-related MRI factor that correlated with patients’ DFS in univariate analysis; however, it was not significant in multivariate analysis.
Key Points
• Diagnostic performance of MRI for EMVI after preoperative chemoradiotherapy is good.
• The mean DFS was lower in yMR-EMVI-positive than yMR-EMVI-negative patients.
• MRI can facilitate prognosis prediction of rectal cancer patients with preoperative chemoradiotherapy.
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Abbreviations
- AUC:
-
Area under the curve
- CRT:
-
Chemoradiotherapy
- DFS:
-
Disease-free survival
- MR-vTRG:
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EMVI tumour regression grading assessed by magnetic resonance
- EMVI:
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Extramural venous invasion
- MR-EMVI:
-
Initial MRI-detected EMVI
- MRI:
-
Magnetic resonance imaging
- OS:
-
Overall survival
- (y)pEMVI:
-
Pathologically proven EMVI
- yMR-EMVI:
-
Post-chemoradiotherapy MRI-detected EMVI
- ROC:
-
Receiver operating characteristic
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Lee, E.S., Kim, M.J., Park, S.C. et al. Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Detected Extramural Venous Invasion in Rectal Cancer before and after Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy: Diagnostic Performance and Prognostic Significance. Eur Radiol 28, 496–505 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-017-4978-6
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