Comparison of ¹¹C-Choline PET/CT and Enhanced CT in the Evaluation of Patients With Pulmonary Abnormalities and Locoregional Lymph Node Involvement in Lung Cancer

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• 作者：Zhongmin Peng¹ ; Qingwei Liu² ; Meng Li¹ ; Mingyong Han³ ; Shuzhan Yao² ; Qi Liu³ ; ^{sllqpeng@163.com}
• 关键词：11C-choline PET ; CT ; Lung cancer ; Lymph node metastasis
• 刊名：Clinical Lung Cancer
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：pca94_15257304
• 类别：med
• 出版时间：July, 2012
• 卷：13
• 期：4
• 页码：312-320
• 文件大小：1318 K

摘要

Background

This study compares the diagnostic abilities of integrated ¹¹C-choline PET/CT imaging and contrast-enhanced helical CT imaging in pulmonary lesions and locoregional lymph node metastases in patients with lung cancer.

Patients and Methods

One hundred eight patients with proven or suspected lung cancer underwent integrated ¹¹C-choline PET/CT and contrast-enhanced CT, followed by surgical resection and nodal staging.

Results

The ¹¹C-choline PET/CT and CT diagnoses of pulmonary lesions and locoregional lymph node metastases were compared with pathologic findings, which revealed benign lesions in 26 patients (tuberculoma [8 patients], inflammatory pseudotumor [7 patients], hamartoma [6 patients], sclerosing hemangioma [4 patients], and pulmonary sequestration [1 patient]) and lung cancers in 82 patients (adenocarcinoma [39 patients], squamous cell carcinoma [23 patients], carcinoid [7 patients], small-cell lung cancer [5 patients], adenosquamous carcinoma [5 patients], and large-cell lung cancer [3 patients]). The accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of ¹¹C-choline PET/CT for diagnosing lung cancer were 82.4%, 85.4%, and 73.1%, respectively, compared with 73.1%, 76.8%, and 61.5%, respectively, for CT. Differences between ¹¹C-choline PET/CT and CT in diagnosing lung cancer were not statistically significant (p = .503, .118, and .375, respectively). We used receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve for analysis, finding the ROC of standard uptake value (SUV_max) for diagnosing lung cancer. The cutoff value of SUV_max was 3.54. Preoperative nodal staging was compared with postoperative histopathologic staging. ¹¹C-choline PET/CT correctly staged 80.5%of patients, 12.2%were overstaged, and 7.3%were understaged; for CT these values were 58.5%, 24.4%, and 17.1%, respectively. The accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value (NPV) of ¹¹C-choline PET/CT for lymph nodes were 83.8%, 82.4%, 84.1%, 50.3%, and 96.1%, respectively, compared with 69.3%, 63.7%, 71.2%, 30.2%, 91.0%, respectively, for CT.

Conclusion

Differences in the accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, PPV, and NPV between ¹¹C-choline PET/CT and CT are thus statistically significant for nodal staging (p = .003, .007, .000, .000, and .004, respectively). Although ¹¹C-choline PET/CT is not significantly better at diagnosing pulmonary lesions than is enhanced CT, ¹¹C-choline PET/CT has improved sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, PPV, and NPV relative to enhanced CT in the evaluation of locoregional lymph nodes.