Knowing the tumor size before operation is of great significance to the choice of treatment methods of surgeons and the prognosis of patients. In this study, two commonly used imaging methods( CE-MRI/CEUS) were selected to measure and compare the tumor size before operation, in order to determine which measurement method is more accurate.
A total of 194 patients who met the inclusion criteria from January 2019 through May 2024 were included. Taken pathological results as the gold standard, Paired T-test and Bland-Altman analisis were conducted to assess the correlation and mean absolute error between the measured tumor sizes obtained from CE-MRI/CEUS and pathological results.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
194
MRI was performed by using a superconducting magnet scanner operated at 3.0 T (GE discovery MR750w, USA) and the CEUS examination (Mindray, China), ultrasound was performed first in B-mode to identify the suspicious lesions and then switched to contrast mode prior to the injection of the contrast medium.
Anhui Provincial Hospital
Hefei, Anhui, China
measuring HCC diameter
the performance of Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI (CE-MRI) and Contrast-enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) in measuring tumor size of solitary hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) ≤5cm.
Time frame: Jaunary 2019 - May 2024
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