B Geerts1,2, D Leclercq1, S Tezenas du Montcel3,4, B Law-Ye1,5, S Gerber1, D Bernardeschi6, D Galanaud1,5, D Dormont1,5, N Pyatigorskaya7,8. 1. Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Neuroradiology department, AP-HP, 47-83 bd de l'Hôpital, 75651, Paris, France. 2. Radiology department, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium. 3. Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Biostatistics Unit, AP-HP, 47-83 bd de l'Hôpital, 75651, Paris, France. 4. UPMC Univ Paris 06 UMR_S1136, and INSERM UMR_S 1136, Institut Pierre Louis d'Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique, Sorbonne Universités, 75013, Paris, France. 5. UPMC Univ Paris 06, Sorbonne Universités, 75013, Paris, France. 6. Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Otology, auditory implants and skull base surgery department, AP-HP, 47-83 bd de l'Hôpital, 75651, Paris, France. 7. Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Neuroradiology department, AP-HP, 47-83 bd de l'Hôpital, 75651, Paris, France. nadya.pyatigorskaya@aphp.fr. 8. UPMC Univ Paris 06, Sorbonne Universités, 75013, Paris, France. nadya.pyatigorskaya@aphp.fr.
Abstract
PURPOSE: Pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling (pCASL) is a non-invasive magnetic resonance (MR) perfusion technique. Our study aimed at estimating the diagnostic performance of the pCASL sequence in assessing the perfusion of skull base lesions both qualitatively and quantitatively and at providing cut-off values for differentiation of specific skull base lesions. METHODS: In this study 99 patients with histopathologically confirmed skull base lesions were retrospectively enrolled. Based on a pathological analysis, the lesions were classified as hypervascular and non-hypervascular. Patients were divided into two subgroups according to the anatomical origin of each lesion. The MRI study included pCASL and 3D T1-weighted fat-saturated post-contrast sequences. Of the patients seven were excluded due to technical difficulties or patient movement. The lesions were classified by two raters, blinded to the diagnosis as either hyperperfused or non-hyperperfused, based on the pCASL sequence. The normalized tumor blood flow (nTBF) of each lesion was determined. Qualitative and quantitative characteristics of hypervascular and non-hypervascular lesions were compared. RESULTS: Visual assessment enabled correct classification of 98% of the lesions to be performed. Quantitatively, we found significant differences between the nTBF values for hypervascular and non-hypervascular lesions (p < 0.001) and provided cut-off values, allowing meningioma and schwannoma to be distinguished from meningioma and adenoma. Significant differences were also found within the hypervascular group, namely, paraganglioma was more hyperperfused than meningioma (p = 0.003) or metastases (p = 0.009). CONCLUSION: The present study demonstrates the high diagnostic performance of pCASL in characterizing skull base lesions by either visual assessment or nTBF quantification. Adding the pCASL sequence to the conventional protocol of skull base assessment can be recommended.
PURPOSE: Pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling (pCASL) is a non-invasive magnetic resonance (MR) perfusion technique. Our study aimed at estimating the diagnostic performance of the pCASL sequence in assessing the perfusion of skull base lesions both qualitatively and quantitatively and at providing cut-off values for differentiation of specific skull base lesions. METHODS: In this study 99 patients with histopathologically confirmed skull base lesions were retrospectively enrolled. Based on a pathological analysis, the lesions were classified as hypervascular and non-hypervascular. Patients were divided into two subgroups according to the anatomical origin of each lesion. The MRI study included pCASL and 3D T1-weighted fat-saturated post-contrast sequences. Of the patients seven were excluded due to technical difficulties or patient movement. The lesions were classified by two raters, blinded to the diagnosis as either hyperperfused or non-hyperperfused, based on the pCASL sequence. The normalized tumor blood flow (nTBF) of each lesion was determined. Qualitative and quantitative characteristics of hypervascular and non-hypervascular lesions were compared. RESULTS: Visual assessment enabled correct classification of 98% of the lesions to be performed. Quantitatively, we found significant differences between the nTBF values for hypervascular and non-hypervascular lesions (p < 0.001) and provided cut-off values, allowing meningioma and schwannoma to be distinguished from meningioma and adenoma. Significant differences were also found within the hypervascular group, namely, paraganglioma was more hyperperfused than meningioma (p = 0.003) or metastases (p = 0.009). CONCLUSION: The present study demonstrates the high diagnostic performance of pCASL in characterizing skull base lesions by either visual assessment or nTBF quantification. Adding the pCASL sequence to the conventional protocol of skull base assessment can be recommended.
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Arterial spin labeling; Magnetic resonance imaging; Perfusion; Skull base lesions
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