Predicting liver metastasis of gastrointestinal tract cancer by diffusion-weighted imaging of apparent diffusion coefficient values

• Published in: World journal of gastroenterology : WJG Vol. 22; no. 10; pp. 3031 - 3037
• Main Authors: Zheng, De-Xian, Meng, Shu-Chun, Liu, Qing-Jun, Li, Chuan-Ting, Shang, Xi-Dan, Zhu, Yu-Seng, Bai, Tian-Jun, Xu, Shi-Ming
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 14.03.2016
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Antineoplastic Agents - therapeutic use; Area Under Curve; cancer; Chemotherapy;Liver; Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Female; Gastrointestinal Neoplasms - pathology; Humans; imaging;Gastrointestinal; Liver Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging; Liver Neoplasms - drug therapy; Liver Neoplasms - secondary; Male; metastatic; Middle Aged; Observational Study; Predictive Value of Tests; Reproducibility of Results; resonance; ROC Curve; Time Factors; tract; Treatment Outcome; Tumor Burden; tumor;Magnetic; Gastrointestinal tract cancer; Chemotherapy; Magnetic resonance imaging; Liver metastatic tumor

AIM: To determine if efficacy of chemotherapy on liver metastasis of gastrointestinal tract cancer can be predicted by apparent diffusion coefficient(ADC) values of diffusion-weighted imaging(DWI). METHODS: In total, 86 patients with liver metastasis of gastrointestinal tract cancer(156 metastatic l...