PURPOSE: To prospectively determine whether breast carcinomas possess characteristic values of tumor blood flow (TBF) that correlate with pathologic and molecular prognostic markers. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The institutional ethics committee approved this study. After informed consent was obtained, 57 women (age range, 31-80 years) with histologically proved breast cancer underwent routine magnetic resonance (MR) mammography, which included a whole-breast dynamic contrast material-enhanced (DCE) sequence. A second contrast material bolus was injected during dynamic single-section turbo field-echo imaging of the section where the lesion was maximally enhanced. The relative signal intensity changes were deconvolved in a pixelwise fashion to yield the TBF. Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tumor specimens on slides were evaluated for histologic size and grade, as well as for estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) protein. In patients with a HER2 protein score of 2+ or 3+, HER2 gene status was assessed. For all prognostic parameters, the Mann-Whitney U test was used to compare median TBF in the HER2-positive group with that in the HER2-negative group. RESULTS: Significantly higher TBF was observed in tumors larger than 2 cm in diameter and in PR-negative and HER2 gene-amplified tumors (P < .05). In the HER2-positive and HER2-negative groups, ER-positive PR-positive tumors had a lower median TBF than did ER-negative PR-negative tumors, and the difference was significant in the HER2-positive group (P < .05). CONCLUSION: Pixelwise deconvolution analysis of DCE MR data in patients with breast cancer can provide preoperative information regarding TBF. These results also support the hypothesis that there is increased TBF in HER2-positive tumors. (c) RSNA, 2008.
PURPOSE: To prospectively determine whether breast carcinomas possess characteristic values of tumor blood flow (TBF) that correlate with pathologic and molecular prognostic markers. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The institutional ethics committee approved this study. After informed consent was obtained, 57 women (age range, 31-80 years) with histologically proved breast cancer underwent routine magnetic resonance (MR) mammography, which included a whole-breast dynamic contrast material-enhanced (DCE) sequence. A second contrast material bolus was injected during dynamic single-section turbo field-echo imaging of the section where the lesion was maximally enhanced. The relative signal intensity changes were deconvolved in a pixelwise fashion to yield the TBF. Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tumor specimens on slides were evaluated for histologic size and grade, as well as for estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and humanepidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) protein. In patients with a HER2 protein score of 2+ or 3+, HER2 gene status was assessed. For all prognostic parameters, the Mann-Whitney U test was used to compare median TBF in the HER2-positive group with that in the HER2-negative group. RESULTS: Significantly higher TBF was observed in tumors larger than 2 cm in diameter and in PR-negative and HER2 gene-amplified tumors (P < .05). In the HER2-positive and HER2-negative groups, ER-positive PR-positive tumors had a lower median TBF than did ER-negative PR-negative tumors, and the difference was significant in the HER2-positive group (P < .05). CONCLUSION: Pixelwise deconvolution analysis of DCE MR data in patients with breast cancer can provide preoperative information regarding TBF. These results also support the hypothesis that there is increased TBF in HER2-positive tumors. (c) RSNA, 2008.
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