facing contrast-enhancing gliomas: perfusion mri in grade iii and grade iv gliomas according to tumor area

facing contrast-enhancing gliomas: perfusion mri in grade iii and grade iv gliomas according to tumor area

;Anna Luisa Di Stefano;Niels Bergsland;Giulia Berzero;Lisa Farina;Elisa Rognone;Matteo Gastaldi;Domenico Aquino;Alessandro Frati;Francesco Tomasello;Mauro Ceroni;Enrico Marchioni;Stefano Bastianello
spectrochimica acta - part a: molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy 2014 Vol. 2014 pp. -
150
stefano2014biomedfacing

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Tumoral neoangiogenesis characterizes high grade gliomas. Relative Cerebral Blood Volume (rCBV), calculated with Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast (DSC) Perfusion-Weighted Imaging (PWI), allows for the estimation of vascular density over the tumor bed. The aim of the study was to characterize putative tumoral neoangiogenesis via the study of maximal rCBV with a Region of Interest (ROI) approach in three tumor areas—the contrast-enhancing area, the nonenhancing tumor, and the high perfusion area on CBV map—in patients affected by contrast-enhancing glioma (grades III and IV). Twenty-one patients were included: 15 were affected by grade IV and 6 by grade III glioma. Maximal rCBV values for each patient were averaged according to glioma grade. Although rCBV from contrast-enhancement and from nonenhancing tumor areas was higher in grade IV glioma than in grade III (5.58 and 2.68; 3.01 and 2.2, resp.), the differences were not significant. Instead, rCBV recorded in the high perfusion area on CBV map, independently of tumor compartment, was significantly higher in grade IV glioma than in grade III (7.51 versus 3.78, P=0.036). In conclusion, neoangiogenesis encompasses different tumor compartments and CBV maps appear capable of best characterizing the degree of neovascularization. Facing contrast-enhancing brain tumors, areas of high perfusion on CBV maps should be considered as the reference areas to be targeted for glioma grading.

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