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24.04.2017 | Hepatobiliary-Pancreas
Imaging-based surrogate markers of transcriptome subclasses and signatures in hepatocellular carcinoma: preliminary results
verfasst von:
Bachir Taouli, Yujin Hoshida, Suguru Kakite, Xintong Chen, Poh Seng Tan, Xiaochen Sun, Shingo Kihira, Kensuke Kojima, Sara Toffanin, M. Isabel Fiel, Hadassa Hirschfield, Mathilde Wagner, Josep M. Llovet
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European Radiology
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Ausgabe 11/2017
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Abstract
Objectives
In this preliminary study, we examined whether imaging-based phenotypes are associated with reported predictive gene signatures in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
Methods
Thirty-eight patients (M/F 30/8, mean age 61 years) who underwent pre-operative CT or MR imaging before surgery as well as transcriptome profiling were included in this IRB-approved single-centre retrospective study. Eleven qualitative and four quantitative imaging traits (size, enhancement ratios, wash-out ratio, tumour-to-liver contrast ratios) were assessed by three observers and were correlated with 13 previously reported HCC gene signatures using logistic regression analysis.
Results
Thirty-nine HCC tumours (mean size 5.7 ± 3.2 cm) were assessed. Significant positive associations were observed between certain imaging traits and gene signatures of aggressive HCC phenotype (G3-Boyault, Proliferation-Chiang profiles, CK19-Villanueva, S1/S2-Hoshida) with odds ratios ranging from 4.44–12.73 (P <0.045). Infiltrative pattern at imaging was significantly associated with signatures of microvascular invasion and aggressive phenotype. Significant but weak associations were also observed between each enhancement ratio and tumour-to-liver contrast ratios and certain gene expression profiles.
Conclusions
This preliminary study demonstrates a correlation between phenotypic imaging traits with gene signatures of aggressive HCC, which warrants further prospective validation to establish imaging-based surrogate markers of molecular phenotypes in HCC.
Key points
• There are associations between imaging and gene signatures of aggressive hepatocellular carcinoma.
• Infiltrative type is associated with gene signatures of microvascular invasion and aggressiveness.
• Infiltrative type may be a surrogate marker of microvascular invasion gene signature.