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Study on the value of liver-specific contrast agent MRI abbreviated sequence in screening small hepatocellular carcinoma in high-risk population
WANG Cong  GUO Ran  SHI Dandan  YU Changjiang  ZHOU Yiran  ZHU Shaocheng 

Cite this article as: Wang C, Guo R, Shi DD, et al. Study on the value of liver-specific contrast agent MRI abbreviated sequence in screening small hepatocellular carcinoma in high-risk population[J]. Chin J Magn Reson Imaging, 2021, 12(9): 20-24. DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2021.09.005.


[Abstract] Objective To compare the screening ability of three groups of abbreviated MRI sequences for small hepatocellular carcinoma (small hepatocellular carcinoma, sHCC) in a high-risk population of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Materials andMethods The images of 121 patients with pathological results who underwent full sequence gadoxetic acid-enhanced MR in Henan People's Hospital from January 2017 to October 2020 were collected. Three groups of optimized sequences were extracted from the whole sequence for independent evaluation by two radiologists: (1) Non-contrast group, including T2WI and DWI sequences. (2) Dynamic enhancement group, including four-phase enhanced images of disodium gadolinium (early arterial phase, arterial phase, portal venous phase, equilibrium phase). (3) Hepatobiliary phase group, including T2WI, DWI and 20 min T1-HBP sequences. According to the pathological results, the patients were divided into positive or negative liver cancer, and the diagnostic efficiency of the abbreviated sequence in the three groups was calculated.Results The scanning and preparation time of the three groups of abbreviated MRI sequences (minutes: seconds) are 12:52, 13:04 and 14:06, respectively. The sensitivity and 95% confidence interval of the three abbreviated sequences for diagnosing small hepatocellular carcinoma were 0.855 (0.750, 0.928), 0.913 (0.820, 0.967), 0.942 (0.858, 0.984), and the specificity was 0.731 (0.590, 0.844), 0.904 (0.790, 0.968), 0.885 (0.766,0.956). The coincidence rate was 0.802 (0.719, 0.869), 0.909 (0.843, 0.954), 0.917 (0.853, 0.960). The positive likelihood ratios of the three groups were 3.18, 9.51, 8.19, the negative likelihood ratios were 0.19, 0.09, 0.06, and the Youden index was 0.586, 0.817 and 0.827 respectively.Conclusions The sensitivity of non-contrast group is higher, which is helpful for small hepatocellular carcinoma screening, while the specificity and coincidence rate of dynamic enhancement group and hepatobiliary phase group are higher, and the diagnostic efficacy of screening small hepatocellular carcinoma is better.
[Keywords] small hepatocellular carcinoma；Gd-EOB-DTPA；abbreviated magnetic resonance imaging sequence；screening；liver；contrast agent；magnetic resonance imaging

WANG Cong1   GUO Ran2   SHI Dandan2   YU Changjiang2   ZHOU Yiran2   ZHU Shaocheng2*  

1 Henan Provincial People's Hospital of Xinxiang Medical College, Xinxiang 453003, China

2 Medical Imaging Department, Henan Provincial People's Hospital, Zhengzhou 450003, China

Zhu SC, E-mail: zsc2686@163.com

Conflicts of interest   None.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This article is supported by the Special Project of Key R&D and Promotion in Henan Province (Scientific and Technological Research) (No. 212102310729).
Received  2021-04-05
Accepted  2021-06-29
DOI: 10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2021.09.005
Cite this article as: Wang C, Guo R, Shi DD, et al. Study on the value of liver-specific contrast agent MRI abbreviated sequence in screening small hepatocellular carcinoma in high-risk population[J]. Chin J Magn Reson Imaging, 2021, 12(9): 20-24. DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2021.09.005.

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