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In Vivo, Percutaneous, Needle Based, Optical Coherence Tomography of Renal Masses
Published on: March 30, 2015
Routine or enhanced imaging to differentiate between type 1 and type 2 papillary renal cell carcinoma
1Department of Ultrasound, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, No. 180 of Fenglin Road, Shanghai, 200032, China; Shanghai Institute of Medical Imaging, Fudan University, No. 180 of Fenglin Road, Shanghai, 200032, China.
Aim:
To investigate imaging features and differentiating qualities of type 1 and type 2 papillary renal cell carcinoma (pRCC) by different imaging techniques.
Materials And Methods:
From 2007 to 2019, 107 patients with type 1 pRCC (T1-pRCC) and 147 with type 2 pRCC (T2-pRCC) were included in this retrospective study. All patients underwent conventional ultrasound (US); some also underwent contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS), contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CECT), or contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (CE-MRI). Tumour Fuhrman grade or World Health Organization (WHO)/International Society of Urological Pathology (ISUP) grade (after June 2016) and invasive ranges were recorded. The two types of pRCC were analysed and compared for imaging features including tumour position, size, margin, echo type, and colour Doppler flow imaging (CDFI) using US as well as enhanced features from CEUS, CECT, or CE-MRI.
Results:
T2-pRCC showed a higher Fuhrman grade (p<0.001) and greater propensity to invade extrarenal tissue (p<0.001) than T1-pRCC. On US imaging, T2-pRCC was more likely to be a cystic-solid lesion (p<0.001), and colour flow with a higher resistance index (RI; p=0.014) was more easily detected (p=0.001) in T2-pRCC than in T1-pRCC. Within contrast-enhanced examinations, more T2-pRCC lesions had blurred tumour borders (p=0.003), hypervascular characteristics (p=0.003), and heterogeneous enhancement (p<0.001) than those of T1-pRCC.
Conclusions:
T2-pRCC manifests more aggressively than T1-pRCC. T2-pRCC has a higher proportion of hypervascular and heterogeneous enhancement than T1-RCC.
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