Galldiks, Norbert ORCID: 0000-0002-2485-1796, Dunkl, Veronika, Stoffels, Gabriele ORCID: 0000-0001-7114-1941, Hutterer, Markus, Rapp, Marion, Sabel, Michael, Reifenberger, Guido, Kebir, Sied, Dorn, Franziska ORCID: 0000-0001-9093-8307, Blau, Tobias, Herrlinger, Ulrich, Hau, Peter ORCID: 0000-0003-3894-5053, Ruge, Maximilian I., Kocher, Martin, Goldbrunner, Roland, Fink, Gereon R. ORCID: 0000-0002-8230-1856, Drzezga, Alexander, Schmidt, Matthias and Langen, Karl-Josef ORCID: 0000-0003-1101-5075 (2015). Diagnosis of pseudoprogression in patients with glioblastoma using O-(2-[F-18]fluoroethyl)-L-tyrosine PET. Eur. J. Nucl. Med. Mol. Imaging, 42 (5). S. 685 - 696. NEW YORK: SPRINGER. ISSN 1619-7089
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Purpose The follow-up of glioblastoma patients after radiochemotherapy with conventional MRI can be difficult since reactive alterations to the blood-brain barrier with contrast enhancement may mimic tumour progression (i.e. pseudoprogression, PsP). The aim of this study was to assess the clinical value of O-(2-F-18-fluoroethyl)-L-tyrosine (F-18-FET) PET in the differentiation of PsP and early tumour progression (EP) after radiochemotherapy of glioblastoma. Methods A group of 22 glioblastoma patients with new contrast-enhancing lesions or lesions showing increased enhancement (>25%) on standardMRI within the first 12 weeks after completion of radiochemotherapy with concomitant temozolomide (median 7 weeks) were additionally examined using amino acid PET with F-18-FET. Maximum and mean tumour-to-brain ratios (TBRmax, TBRmean) were determined. F-18-FET uptake kinetic parameters (i.e. patterns of time-activity curves, TAC) were also evaluated. Classification as PsP or EP was based on the clinical course (no treatment change at least for 6 months), follow-up MR imaging and/or histopathological findings. Imaging results were also related to overall survival (OS). Results PsP was confirmed in 11 of the 22 patients. In patients with PsP, F-18-FET uptake was significantly lower than in patients with EP (TBRmax 1.9 +/- 0.4 vs. 2.8 +/- 0.5, TBRmean 1.8 +/- 0.2 vs. 2.3 +/- 0.3; both P<0.001) and presence of MGMT promoter methylation was significantly more frequent (P=0.05). Furthermore, a TAC type II or III was more frequently present in patients with EP (P=0.04). Receiver operating characteristic analysis showed that the optimal F-18-FET TBRmax cut-off value for identifying PsP was 2.3 (sensitivity 100 %, specificity 91 %, accuracy 96 %, AUC 0.94 +/- 0.06; P<0.001). Univariate survival analysis showed that a TBRmax <2.3 predicted a significantly longer OS (median OS 23 vs. 12 months; P=0.046). Conclusion F-18-FET PET may facilitate the diagnosis of PsP following radiochemotherapy of glioblastoma.
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-408969 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1007/s00259-014-2959-4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Eur. J. Nucl. Med. Mol. Imaging | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Volume: | 42 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number: | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Page Range: | S. 685 - 696 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date: | 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: | SPRINGER | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of Publication: | NEW YORK | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ISSN: | 1619-7089 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/40896 |
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