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Erschienen in: European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 8/2019

27.04.2019 | Original Article

Advanced MR imaging and 18F-DOPA PET characteristics of H3K27M-mutant and wild-type pediatric diffuse midline gliomas

verfasst von: Arnoldo Piccardo, Domenico Tortora, Samantha Mascelli, Mariasavina Severino, Gianluca Piatelli, Alessandro Consales, Marco Pescetto, Veronica Biassoni, Elisabetta Schiavello, Michela Massollo, Antonio Verrico, Claudia Milanaccio, Maria Luisa Garrè, Andrea Rossi, Giovanni Morana

Erschienen in: European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging | Ausgabe 8/2019

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Abstract

Purpose

The aim of this study was to investigate MRI-derived diffusion weighted imaging (DWI), 1H-MR spectroscopy (1H-MRS) and arterial spin labeling (ASL) perfusion imaging in comparison with 18F-dihydroxyphenylalanine (DOPA) PET with respect to diagnostic evaluation of pediatric diffuse midline gliomas (DMG) H3K27M-mutant and wild-type.

Methods

We retrospectively analyzed 22 pediatric patients with DMG histologically proved and molecularly classified as H3K27M-mutant (12 subjects) and wild-type (10 subjects) who underwent DWI, 1H-MRS, and ASL performed within 2 weeks of 18F-DOPA PET. DWI-derived relative minimum apparent diffusion coefficient (rADC min), 1H-MRS data [choline/N-acetylaspartate (Cho/NAA), choline/creatine (Cho/Cr), and presence of lactate] and relative ASL-derived cerebral blood flow max (rCBF max) were compared with 18F-DOPA uptake Tumor/Normal tissue (T/N) and Tumor/Striatum (T/S) ratios, and correlated with histological and molecular features of DMG. Statistics included Pearson’s chi-square and Mann-Whitney U tests, Spearman’s rank correlation and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis.

Results

The highest degrees of correlation among different techniques were found between T/S, rADC min and Cho/NAA ratio (p < 0.01), and between rCBF max and rADC min (p < 0.01). Significant differences between histologically classified low- and high-grade DMG, independently of H3K27M-mutation, were found among all imaging techniques (p ≤ 0.02). Significant differences in terms of rCBF max, rADC min, Cho/NAA and 18F-DOPA uptake were also found between molecularly classified mutant and wild-type DMG (p ≤ 0.02), even though wild-type DMG included low-grade astrocytomas, not present among mutant DMG. When comparing only histologically defined high-grade mutant and wild-type DMG, only the 18F-DOPA PET data T/S demonstrated statistically significant differences independently of histology (p < 0.003). ROC analysis demonstrated that T/S ratio was the best parameter for differentiating mutant from wild-type DMG (AUC 0.94, p < 0.001).

Conclusions

Advanced MRI and 18F-DOPA PET characteristics of DMG depend on histological features; however, 18F-DOPA PET-T/S was the only parameter able to discriminate H3K27M-mutant from wild-type DMG independently of histology.
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Metadaten
Titel
Advanced MR imaging and 18F-DOPA PET characteristics of H3K27M-mutant and wild-type pediatric diffuse midline gliomas
verfasst von
Arnoldo Piccardo
Domenico Tortora
Samantha Mascelli
Mariasavina Severino
Gianluca Piatelli
Alessandro Consales
Marco Pescetto
Veronica Biassoni
Elisabetta Schiavello
Michela Massollo
Antonio Verrico
Claudia Milanaccio
Maria Luisa Garrè
Andrea Rossi
Giovanni Morana
Publikationsdatum
27.04.2019
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging / Ausgabe 8/2019
Print ISSN: 1619-7070
Elektronische ISSN: 1619-7089
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-019-04333-4

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