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Utilizing 18F-FDG PET/CT Imaging and Quantitative Histology to Measure Dynamic Changes in the Glucose Metabolism in Mouse Models of Lung Cancer
Published on: July 21, 2018
The association between 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose PET intratumoral metabolic heterogeneity and pathological parameters
Objective:
The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between intratumoral metabolic heterogeneity on F-fluorodeoxyglucose (F-FDG) PET imaging and the pathological type, differentiation and T stage of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
Methods:
Two hundred thirty-four consecutive patients who were performed pretreatment F-FDG PET/computed tomography and pathologically diagnosed as NSCLC were assessed retrospectively. Metabolic heterogeneity factor (MHF) derived from the volume-threshold function from 40 to 90% was calculated for primary lesions. The association between MHF and the pathological type, differentiation and T stage of NSCLC were analyzed, respectively.
Results:
The MHF values were statistically different among pathological types, differentiation and T stages (F = 17.611, 23.932 and 11.082, P all < 0.001). MHF showed a stepwise increase with the reduced degree of differentiation and increase of T stage. The trend analysis presented a strong positive relationship between MHF and T stage (P < 0.05), but a correlated inversely and strongly relationship was demonstrated between MHF and diffferentiation (P < 0.001). Moreover, multivariate ordinal logistic regression analysis showed that MHF was independently associated with tumor T stage and differentiation after adjusting for clinical factors.
Conclusion:
MHF showed high association with pathological parameters, which can be used to accurately predict the biological behaviors of tumors from the molecular level thus to provide important biological information for tumor diagnosis and treatment.
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