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Vol. 36. Issue 1.
Pages 20-26 (January - February 2017)
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Vol. 36. Issue 1.
Pages 20-26 (January - February 2017)
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18F-FDG PET/CT and sentinel lymph node biopsy in the staging of patients with cervical and endometrial cancer. Role of dual-time-point imaging
PET/TC con 18F-FDG y biopsia del ganglio centinela en la estadificación de pacientes con cáncer de cérvix y endometrio. Utilidad de la imagen dual-time-point
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M. Mayorala,1,
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mmayoral@clinic.ub.es

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, P. Paredesa,b,1, B. Domènecha, P. Fustéc, S. Vidal-Sicarta,b, A. Tapiasa, A. Tornéb,c, J. Pahisab,c, J. Ordid,e, F. Ponsa,b, F. Lomeñaa,b
a Nuclear Medicine Department, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain
b Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
c Clinic Institute of Gynaecology, Obstetrics and Neonatology, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain
d Pathology Department, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain
e CRESIB (Centre de Recerca en Salut Internacional de Barcelona), Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain
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Abstract
Objective

Definitive staging for cervical (CC) and endometrial cancer (EC) takes place once surgery is performed. The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of PET/CT in detecting lymphatic metastasis in patients with CC and EC using dual-time-point imaging (DPI), taking the histopathological results of sentinel lymph node (SLN) and lymphadenectomy as the reference.

Material and methods

A prospective study was conducted on 17 patients with early CC, and 13 patients with high-risk EC. The patients had a pre-operative PET/CT, MRI, SLN detection, and lymphadenectomy, when indicated. PET/CT findings were compared with histopathological results.

Results

In the pathology study, 4 patients with CC and 4 patients with EC had lymphatic metastasis. PET/CT showed hypermetabolic nodes in 1 patient with CC, and 5 with EC. Four of these had metastasis, one detected in the SLN biopsy. Four patients who had negative PET/CT had micrometastasis in the SLN biopsy, 1 patient with additional lymph nodes involvement. The overall patient-based sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values, and accuracy of PET/CT to detect lymphatic metastasis was 20.0%, 100.0%, 100.0%, 87.9%, and 88.2%, respectively, in CC, and 57.1%, 88.9%, 66.7%, 84.2% and 80.0%, respectively, in EC. DPI showed higher retention index in malignant than in inflammatory nodes, although no statistically significant differences were found.

Conclusions

PET/CT has low sensitivity in lymph node staging of CC and EC, owing to the lack of detection of micrometastasis. Thus, PET/CT cannot replace SLN biopsy. Although no statistically significant differences were found, DPI may help to differentiate between inflammatory and malignant nodes.

Keywords:
Cervical cancer
Endometrial cancer
PET/CT
Sentinel lymph node
Dual-time-point imaging
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Objetivo

La estadificación definitiva del cáncer de cérvix (CC) y de endometrio (CE) tiene lugar tras la cirugía. Nuestro objetivo fue evaluar la utilidad de la PET/TC para la detección de metástasis ganglionares en el CC y en el CE con imagen dual-time-point (DPI), considerando como gold standard la histopatología del ganglio centinela (GC) y la linfadenectomía.

Material y métodos

Diecisiete pacientes con CC inicial y 13 con CE de alto riesgo fueron incluidas prospectivamente. Preoperatoriamente se realizó una PET/TC, RM, detección del GC y linfadenectomía en los casos indicados. Se comparó la PET/TC con la histopatología.

Resultados

En el estudio anatomopatológico, 4 pacientes con CC y 4 con CE tuvieron metástasis ganglionares. La PET/TC mostró ganglios hipermetabólicos en una paciente con CC y en 5 con CE. Cuatro de ellas tenían metástasis, una detectada en el GC. Cuatro pacientes con PET/TC negativa presentaron micrometástasis en el GC, una paciente con ganglios adicionales infiltrados. La sensibilidad, especificidad, valor predictivo positivo y negativo y la exactitud diagnóstica de la PET/TC para detectar metástasis ganglionares fueron 20,0; 100,0; 100,0; 87,9 y 88,2% para el CC, y 57,1; 88,9; 66,7; 84,2 y 80,0% para el CE. La DPI mostró un índice de retención superior en ganglios infiltrados respecto a los inflamatorios, sin hallar diferencias estadísticamente significativas.

Conclusiones

La PET/TC tiene baja sensibilidad para estadificar el CC y CE por la incapacidad de detectar micrometástasis y, por tanto, no sustituye la detección del GC. Aunque no hubo diferencias estadísticamente significativas, la DPI podría ayudar a diferenciar ganglios inflamatorios de tumorales.

Palabras clave:
Cáncer de cérvix
Cáncer de endometrio
PET/TC
Ganglio centinela
Imagen dual-time-point

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