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ArticleCancers2021

Early Detection of Local Tumor Progression after Irreversible Electroporation (IRE) of a Hepatocellular Carcinoma Using Gd-EOB-DTPA-Based MR Imaging at 3T.

Wolf Bäumler, Philipp Wiggermann, Lukas Lürken, Marco Dollinger, Christian Stroszczynski, Lukas P Beyer, Andreas Schicho

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Article in Cancers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Wolf BäumlerDepartment of Radiology, University Hospital Regensburg, 93042 Regensburg, Germany.
Philipp WiggermannDepartment of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Städtisches Klinikum Braunschweig, 38114 Braunschweig, Germany.
Lukas LürkenDepartment of Radiology, University Hospital Regensburg, 93042 Regensburg, Germany.
Marco DollingerDepartment of Radiology, University Hospital Regensburg, 93042 Regensburg, Germany.
Christian StroszczynskiDepartment of Radiology, University Hospital Regensburg, 93042 Regensburg, Germany.
Lukas P BeyerDepartment of Radiology, Klinikum Ernst von Bergmann, 14467 Potsdam, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2498-920X
Andreas SchichoDepartment of Radiology, University Hospital Regensburg, 93042 Regensburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3648-0996
University Hospital Regensburg · DEKlinikum Braunschweig · DEKlinikum Ernst von Bergmann · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This single-center retrospective study was conducted to improve the early detection of local tumor progression (LTP) after irreversible electroporation (IRE) of a hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) using gadolinium ethoxybenzyl diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid (Gd-EOB-DTPA)-based 3T MR imaging and to identify helpful signal characteristics by comparing 23 patients with and 60 patients without LTP. To identify the differences in the sensitivity of MRI sequences, the specificity, positive prediction value, negative prediction value (NPV) and diagnostic odds ratio were calculated. A chi-squared test, two-tailed student's t-test and binary logistic regression model were used to detect distinct patient characteristics and variables for the prediction of LTP. LTP was mostly detected in the peripheral ablation zone (82.6%) within the first six months (87.0%). The central LTP ablation area presented more hypointensities in T1 p.v. (sensitivity: 95.0%; NPV: 90.0%) and in T1 d.p. (sensitivity: 100.0%; NPV: 100.0) while its peripheral part showed more hyperintensities in T2 BLADE (sensitivity: 95.5%; NPV: 80.0%) and in diffusion sequences (sensitivity: 90.0%). Liver cirrhosis seems to be an unfavorable prognosticator for LTP (

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early detectionGd-EOB-DTPAhepatocellular carcinomairreversible electroporationmagnetic resonance imaging

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PMID33808336
PMCPMC8037433
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