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ArticleJournal of healthcare engineering2022

The Relationship between Ultrasonographic Features of Hepatocellular Carcinoma and the Severity of Hepatocellular Carcinoma and the Expression of PTEN and Tg737.

Lei Tang, Yan Zhang, Qiong Zhou, Qiaojun Hong, Zhanggui Wang

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Article in Journal of healthcare engineering, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lei TangDepartment of Oncology, Anhui No. 2 Provincial People's Hospital, Hefei 230041, China.
Yan ZhangDepartment of Oncology, Anhui No. 2 Provincial People's Hospital, Hefei 230041, China.
Qiong ZhouDepartment of Oncology, Anhui No. 2 Provincial People's Hospital, Hefei 230041, China.
Qiaojun HongDepartment of Oncology, Anhui No. 2 Provincial People's Hospital, Hefei 230041, China.
Zhanggui WangDepartment of Radiotherapy, Anhui No. 2 Provincial People's Hospital, Hefei 230041, China.ORCID 0000-0002-4114-2780
Anhui Provincial Hospital · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To investigate the relationship between the ultrasonographic features of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and the severity of HCC and the expression of tumor suppressor genes PTEN and Tg737, 90 patients with primary liver cancer are selected as the study subjects. The enhancement of liver tumor in arterial phase, portal venous phase, and delayed phase is observed by contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) before operation, and the echo intensity is compared with that of surrounding liver parenchyma. Immunohistochemistry is used to detect the expression of PTEN and Tg737 in hepatocellular carcinoma and paracancerous tissues. (1) In HCC, CEUS enhancement is characterized by rapid enhancement in arterial phase, enhancement in portal venous phase and delayed phase, and decreased hypoechoic changes. About 78.0% of the stage I-II liver cancer and 85.0% of the stage III-IV liver cancer show rapid enhancement and high echo in the arterial phase; only 8.0% of the stage I-II liver cancer shows moderate echo changes in the portal venous phase, while 32.5% (13/40) stage III-IV liver cancer shows moderate echo changes in the portal venous phase. (2) The positive rates of PTEN in liver cancer tissues and paracancerous tissues are 21.1% (19/90) and 70.0% (63/90), respectively, and the difference is statistically significant. The positive rates of Tg737 in liver cancer tissues and paracancerous tissues are 17.8% (16/90) and 75.6% (68/90), respectively, and the difference is statistically significant. Compared with PTEN and Tg737 negative groups, the ascending slope (RS) and initial elimination time (WT) of PTEN and Tg737 positive groups are significantly higher, indicating that the inflow velocity of contrast medium in the positive group is higher, the outflow time is shorter, and the lesions shows low enhancement rapidly. However, the expression of PTEN and Tg737 had no significant difference in maximal intensity (IMAX), peak time (TTP), and mean transit time (mTT). (3) Correlation analysis shows that the immunohistochemical scores of PTEN and Tg737 are not significantly correlated with IMAX, mTT, and TTP but positively correlated with RS (

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Carcinoma, HepatocellularLiver NeoplasmsContrast MediaHumansPTEN PhosphohydrolaseTumor Suppressor ProteinsUltrasonographyContrast MediaIFT88 protein, humanPTEN PhosphohydrolasePTEN protein, humanTumor Suppressor Proteins

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