Li L, Liu LZ, Xie ZM, Mo YX, Zheng L, Ruan CM, Chen L, Wu PH. Multi-phasic CT arterial portography and CT hepatic arteriography improving the accuracy of liver cancer detection.
World J Gastroenterol 2004;
10:3118-21. [PMID:
15457555 PMCID:
PMC4611253 DOI:
10.3748/wjg.v10.i21.3118]
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Abstract
AIM: To evaluate the value of multi-phasic CT arterial portography (CTAP) and CT hepatic arteriography (CTHA) in differential diagnosis of liver diseases, and to improve the specificity of CTAP and CTHA for liver cancer detection.
METHODS: From January 1999 to December 2002, multi-phasic CTAP and CTHA were performed in 20 patients with suspected liver disease. CT scanning was begun 25 s, 60 s and 120 s for the early-, late- and delayed-phase CTAP examinations, and 6sec, 40 s and 120 s for the early-, late-and delayed-phase CTHA examinations respectively, after a transcatheter arterial injection of non-ionic contrast material. If a lesion was diagnosed as a liver cancer, transcatheter hepatic arterial chemoembolization (TACE) treatment was performed, and the follow-up CT was performed three or four weeks later.
RESULTS: All eighteen HCCs in 12 cases were shown as nodular enhancement on early-phasic CTHA. The density of the whole tumor decreased rapidly on late and delayed phases, and the edge of 12 tumors (12/18) remained relatively hyperdense compared with the surrounding liver tissue, and demonstrated as rim enhancement. All HCCs were shown as perfusion defect nodules on multi-phasic CTAP. Five tumors (5/18) were shown as rim enhancement on delayed-phasic CTAP. Rim enhancement was shown as 1 to 2-mm-wide irregular, uneven and discontinuous circumferential enhancement at late-, and delayed-phase of CTHA or CTAP. Five pseudolesions and 4 hemoangiomas were found in multi-phasic CTAP and CTHA. No pseudolesions and hemoangiomas were shown as rim enhancement on late- or delayed-phasic CTHA and CTAP.
CONCLUSION: Multi-phasic CTAP and CTHA could help to recognize the false-positive findings in CTAP and CTHA images, and improve the accuracy of CTAP and CTHA of liver cancer detection.
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