チエルノフ ミハイル
   Department   School of Medicine(Tokyo Women's Medical University Adachi Medical Center), School of Medicine
   Position   Assistant Professor
Article types Original article
Language English
Peer review Peer reviewed
Title 1H-MRS of intracranial meningiomas: What it can add to known clinical and MRI predictors of the histopathological and biological characteristics of the tumor?
Journal Formal name:Clinical neurology and neurosurgery
Abbreviation:Clin Neurol Neurosurg
ISSN code:03038467 1872-6968(Electronic)
Volume, Issue, Page 113(3),pp.202-212
Author and coauthor CHERNOV Mickhail, KASUYA Hidetoshi, NAKAYA Kotaro, KATO Koichi, ONO Yuko, YOSHIDA Shigeru, MURAGAKI Yoshihiro, SUZUKI Takashi, ISEKI Hiroshi, KUBO Osami, HORI Tomokatsu, OKADA Yoshikazu, TAKAKURA Kintomo
Authorship Lead author
Publication date 2011/04
Summary OBJECTIVE:The main goal of the present study was evaluation of proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (¹H-MRS) in diagnosis of histopathologically aggressive intracranial meningiomas.METHODS:Single-voxel ¹H-MRS of 100 intracranial meningiomas was performed before their surgical resection. Investigated metabolites included mobile lipids, lactate, alanine, N-acetylaspartate (NAA), and choline-containing compounds (Cho). According to criteria of World Health Organization (WHO) 82 meningiomas were assigned histopathological grade I, 11 grade II, and 7 grade III. The MIB-1 index varied from 0% to 27.3% (median, 1.6%). In 43 cases tight adhesion of the tumor to the pia mater or brain tissue was macroscopically identified at surgery. The consistency of 49 meningiomas was characterized as soft, 26 as hard, and 25 as mixed.RESULTS:No one metabolic parameter had statistically significant association with histopathological grade and subtype, invasive growth, and consistency of meningioma. Univariate statistical analysis revealed greater ¹H-MRS-detected Cho content (P=0.0444) and lower normalized NAA/Cho ratio (P=0.0203) in tumors with MIB-1 index 5% and more. However, both parameters lost their statistical significance during evaluation in the multivariate model along with other clinical and radiological variables. It was revealed that non-benign histopathology of meningioma (WHO grade II/III) is mainly predicted by irregular shape (P=0.0076) and large size (P=0.0316), increased proliferative activity by irRESULTS:regular shape (P=0.0056), and macroscopically invasive growth by prominent peritumoral edema (P=0.0021).CONCLUSION:While ¹H-MRS may be potentially used for the identification of meningiomas with high proliferative activity, it, seemingly, could not add substantial diagnostic information to other radiological predictors of malignancy in these tumors.
DOI 10.1016/j.clineuro.2010.11.008
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