SynthesisAnnals of nuclear medicine2024
Role of PSMA-targeted PET-CT in renal cell carcinoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Dual-Labeled Small Peptides in Cancer Imaging and Fluorescence-Guided Surgery: Progress and Future Perspectives.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Theranostics in Renal Cell Carcinoma-A Step Towards New Opportunities or a Dead End-A Systematic Review.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Imaging in Renal Cell Carcinoma Detection.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Triple Primary Malignancy Detection in an Elderly Male: A Case Report on Concurrent Prostate Cancer, Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma, and Metastatic Melanoma Identified by PSMA PET-CT.Urology case reports · 2024Article
- A tumor-like renal arteriovenous malformation onFrontiers in medicine · 2024Article
- Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Extracranial Oligometastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma: State of the Art and Future Perspectives.Technology in cancer research & treatmentReview
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Abstract
Fluoro-deoxy glucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT), the workhorse of nuclear medicine, has limited utility for renal cell carcinoma (RCC), particularly clear cell variant. Thus, various other tracers have been tried for evaluation of RCC. One of the most promising targets for radiotracers is prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) expressed in abundance in carcinoma-associated neo-vasculature. Thus, we tried to review and analyse the role of PSMA-targeted PET/CT in evaluation of RCC. Databases like PubMed, EMBASE and SCOPUS were searched for original studies published on PSMA-targeted PET/CT in RCC till 30 September 2023. Revised Tool for the Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies-2 (QUADAS-2) checklist was used to assess the included studies. Pooled sensitivity and specificity were calculated and represented with 95% confidence intervals (95%CI). Heterogeneity in the studies was assessed by I-square index. Pooled sensitivity and specificity of PSMA-targeted PET/CT for detection of local disease estimates were 87.2% (95%CI: 77-94%) and 100% (95%CI: 92.9-100%), respectively. Pooled sensitivity and specificity for detection of local recurrent disease are 100% (95%CI: 71.5-100%) and 100% (95%CI: 89.4-100%), respectively. Pooled sensitivity and specificity for detection of metastatic disease are 92% (95%CI: 86.2-96%) and 96.9% (95%CI: 83.8-99.9%), respectively. Pooled sensitivity of PSMA-targeted PET/CT for detection of clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) and non-ccRCC are 94.7% (95%CI: 88-98.3%) and 75% (95%CI: 35-96.8%), respectively. PSMA-targeted PET-CT demonstrated better diagnostic efficacy for the detection of recurrent RCC. Whilst for staging RCC, it had higher specificity but lower sensitivity. Thus, it can serve as a non-invasive adjuvant tool to conventional imaging in the evaluation of staging of RCC, particularly clear cell variant.
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