Early post-treatment MRI predicts long-term hepatocellular carcinoma response to radiation segmentectomy.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Radiation segmentectomy using yttrium-90 plays an emerging role in the management of early-stage HCC. However, the value of early post-treatment MRI for response assessment is uncertain. We assessed the value of response criteria obtained early after radiation segmentectomy in predicting long-term response in patients with HCC.

Materials and methods

Patients with HCC who underwent contrast-enhanced MRI before, early, and 12 months after radiation segmentectomy were included in this retrospective single-center study. Three independent radiologists reviewed images at baseline and 1^st follow-up after radiation segmentectomy and assessed lesion-based response according to mRECIST, LI-RADS treatment response algorithm (TRA), and image subtraction. The endpoi

SUBMITTER: Stocker D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10791774 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature