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Zhang XL, Wang HT, Tang Y, Lu Q, Yuan HX, Wang X, Liu LH, Zhu DX, Wang WP. Colorectal liver metastases: Correlations of contrast-enhanced ultrasound features with tumor clinicopathological factors and clinical outcomes following conversion therapy. Clin Hemorheol Microcirc 2024; 86:339-356. [PMID: 37927253 DOI: 10.3233/ch-231963] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To explore the prognostic impact of contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) features for initially unresectable colorectal liver metastases (CLMs) in a clinical setting of conversion therapy. METHODS Between March 2015 and November 2020, consecutive patients with CLMs who received conversion treatment were prospectively enrolled. All participants underwent liver CEUS at baseline. The primary endpoint was conversion resection rate (R0 and overall resection). Secondary endpoints were objective response rate (ORR), overall survival (OS), and progression-free survival (PFS). RESULTS 104 participants who completed conversion treatment were included. CEUS enhancement pattern was correlated with index lesion (size and echogenicity), primary (site, differentiation, perineural invasion, and RAS genotype) and serum (CA19-9 level) characteristics (P = <0.001-0.016). CEUS enhancement pattern was significantly associated with R0 resection rate, ORR, PFS, and OS (P = 0.001-0.049), whereas enhancement degree was associated with PFS and OS (P = 0.043 and 0.045). Multivariate analysis showed that heterogeneous enhancement independently predicted R0 and overall resection (P = 0.028 and 0.024) while rim-like enhancement independently predicted ORR and OS (P = 0.009 and 0.026). CONCLUSION CEUS enhancement pattern was significantly associated with tumor characteristics and clinical outcomes following conversion therapy, and thus might be of prognosis impact for initially unresectable CLMs.
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- Xiao-Long Zhang
- Department of Ultrasound, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Ultrasound, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Ultrasound, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Ultrasound, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Ultrasound, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Ultrasound, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Radiology and Multi-Disciplinary Team of Colorectal Cancer, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of General Surgery and Multi-Disciplinary Team of Colorectal Cancer, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Ultrasound, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Jayme VR, Fonseca GM, Amaral IMA, Coelho FF, Kruger JAP, Jeismann VB, Pinheiro RSN, de Mello ES, Herman P. Infiltrative Tumor Borders in Colorectal Liver Metastasis: Should We Enlarge Margin Size? Ann Surg Oncol 2021; 28:7636-7646. [PMID: 33834322 DOI: 10.1245/s10434-021-09916-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2020] [Accepted: 03/11/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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BACKGROUND Surgery is the only potentially curative treatment for colorectal cancer liver metastases (CRLMs). Despite an improvement in results following resection, recurrence rates remain high. Many histopathological features have been reported as prognostic factors. Infiltrative borders are known to be associated with worse prognosis; however, margin size has never been evaluated together with the type of tumor border. In the present study, we analyzed the prognosis of patients with resected CRLM according to tumor growth pattern (TGP) and whether a larger margin size would bring any prognostic benefit. PATIENTS AND METHODS Medical records from a prospective database of 645 patients who underwent hepatic resection for CRLM between January 2004 and December 2019 at a single center were reviewed, and 266 patients were included in the analytic cohort. TGP (pushing or infiltrative) was evaluated regarding the impact in overall and disease-free survival. The impact of margin size (≤ or > 1 cm) on survival and hepatic recurrence according to TGP was also evaluated. RESULTS TGP was defined as infiltrative in 182 cases (68.4%) and pushing in 84 patients (31.6%). Patients with infiltrative-type border presented worse overall survival and disease-free survival, as well as higher intrahepatic recurrence (p < 0.05). Larger margin size did not impact the prognosis of patients with infiltrative borders. CONCLUSIONS Patients with infiltrative-type border present worse prognosis and higher intrahepatic recurrence. Larger margin size (> 1 cm) does not change the prognosis in patients with infiltrative border, showing that tumor biology is the most important factor for survival.
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- Vitoria Ramos Jayme
- Digestive Surgery Division, Liver Surgery Unit, Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital das Clinicas, University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
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- Digestive Surgery Division, Liver Surgery Unit, Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital das Clinicas, University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Digestive Surgery Division, Liver Surgery Unit, Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital das Clinicas, University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Digestive Surgery Division, Liver Surgery Unit, Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital das Clinicas, University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Digestive Surgery Division, Liver Surgery Unit, Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital das Clinicas, University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Digestive Surgery Division, Liver Surgery Unit, Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital das Clinicas, University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Digestive Surgery Division, Liver Surgery Unit, Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital das Clinicas, University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Pathology, Hospital das Clinicas, University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Digestive Surgery Division, Liver Surgery Unit, Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital das Clinicas, University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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Histopathological and Immune Prognostic Factors in Colo-Rectal Liver Metastases. Cancers (Basel) 2021; 13:cancers13051075. [PMID: 33802446 PMCID: PMC7959473 DOI: 10.3390/cancers13051075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2021] [Revised: 02/23/2021] [Accepted: 02/24/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Simple Summary Clinical management of colo-rectal liver metastasis would benefit from a refined stratification of patients in prognostic groups, in order to identify the best therapeutic option. Efforts are ongoing in the definition of parameters associated with clinical behaviors, which could help classifying patients in clinically relevant groups. Here we aimed at discussing the recent advances in this field, and we introduced current and new promising candidates, such as morphological tumor features and immune components, which have been showing significant association with survival. Some of these parameters are slowly reaching the clinic and further efforts are ongoing in the attempt to combine them in multiparametric scores. Abstract Prognostic studies are increasingly providing new tools to stratify colo-rectal liver metastasis patients into clinical subgroups, with remarkable implications in terms of clinical management and therapeutic choice. Here, the strengths and hurdles of current prognostic tools in colo-rectal liver metastasis are discussed. Alongside more classic histopathological parameters, which capture features related to the tumor component, such as tumor invasion, tumor growth pattern and regression score, we will discuss immune mediators, which are starting to be considered important features. Their objective quantification has shown significant results in prognostication studies, with most of the work focused on adaptive immune cells, namely T cells. As for macrophages, they are only starting to be appreciated and we will present recent advances in evaluation of macrophage morphological features. Deeper knowledge acquired by multiparametric analyses is rapidly uncovering the variety of immune players that should be assessed. The future projection is to implement deep-learning histopathological tools and to integrate histopathological and immune metrics in multiparametric scores, with the ultimate objective to achieve a deeper resolution of the tumor features and their relevance for colo-rectal liver metastasis.
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