The Value of Amide Proton Transfer MRI in the Diagnosis of Malignant and Benign
Urinary Bladder Lesions: Comparison With Diffusion-Weighted Imaging.
J Magn Reson Imaging 2024. [PMID:
38174777 DOI:
10.1002/jmri.29199]
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Abstract
BACKGROUND
Conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has certain limitations in distinguishing between malignant and benign urinary bladder (UB) lesions. Amide proton transfer (APT) imaging may provide more diagnostic information than diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) to distinguish between malignant and benign UB.
PURPOSE
To investigate the potential of APT imaging in the diagnosis of malignant and benign UB lesions and to compare its diagnostic efficacy with that of conventional DWI.
STUDY TYPE
Prospective.
SUBJECTS
Eighty patients with UB lesions.
FIELD STRENGTH/SEQUENCE
A 3.0 T/turbo spin echo (TSE) T1-weighted and T2-weighted imaging, single-shot echo planar DWI, and three-dimensional TSE APT imaging.
ASSESSMENT
Patients underwent radical cystectomy or transurethral resection of the bladder lesions within 2 weeks after CT urography and MRI examination. APT signal intensity in UB lesions was quantified by the asymmetric magnetization transfer ratio (MTRasym ). MTRasym and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values were measured and compared between malignant and benign UB lesions.
STATISTICAL TESTS
Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Student's t test or Mann-Whitney U test, Spearman rank correlation coefficient, area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve (AUC), Delong test, and intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). The significance threshold was set at P < 0.05.
RESULTS
Thirty-two patients had pathologically confirmed benign UB lesions, including 2 bladder leiomyomas, 1 submucosal amyloidosis, 1 inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor, and 28 inflammatory lesions, and 48 patients had pathologically confirmed urothelial carcinoma. Urothelial carcinomas showed significantly higher MTRasym values (1.53% [0.74%] vs. 0.85% [0.23%]) and significantly lower ADC values (1.24 ± 0.34 × 10-3 mm2 /s vs. 1.43 ± 0.22 × 10-3 mm2 /s) than benign UB lesions. The MTRasym value (AUC = 0.928) was significantly better in differentiating urothelial carcinoma from benign UB lesions than the ADC value (AUC = 0.722).
DATA CONCLUSION
APT imaging may have value in discriminating malignant from benign UB lesions and has better diagnostic performance than DWI.
LEVEL OF EVIDENCE
3 TECHNICAL EFFICACY: Stage 2.
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