Alharbi B, Alessa M, Alsayid H, Alareek L, Alqaryan S, Alqurayyan R, Alamoudi R, Alghamdi D, Alqahtani K, Aldhahri S. Magnetic resonance imaging accuracy in assessing depth of invasion in tongue squamous cell carcinomas and predicting cervical nodal metastasis.
Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci 2024;
28:1783-1790. [PMID:
38497861 DOI:
10.26355/eurrev_202403_35592]
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE
The aim of this study was to evaluate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) accuracy in assessing the depth of invasion (DOI) compared to pathological DOI in oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and to determine whether MRI-measured DOI can predict lymph node metastasis in the cervical region.
PATIENTS AND METHODS
This retrospective study comprised 36 patients diagnosed with oral tongue SCC who underwent head and neck MRI 1-30 days before surgery and were surgically treated at King Fahad Medical City between January 2017 and November 2022. Relevant information was collected from the patients' records, and the data were analyzed to determine the radiological-histopathological correlations for the DOI and ascertain the cutoff point for nodal metastasis.
RESULTS
A value for Pearson's correlation coefficient between MRI-measured and pathological DOI was 0.86, indicating that these measures were highly associated and consistent with each other. The MRI-measured DOI coronal view (CV) was slightly overestimated than the pathological DOI by 1.72 mm. The cutoff values for the MRI-measured DOI CV and pathological DOI that indicated nodal metastasis were 7.08 mm and 9.04 mm, respectively.
CONCLUSIONS
Preoperative MRI is a valuable tool to accurately stage oral tongue SCC by measuring the depth of tumor invasion.
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