作者: Surachate Siripongsakun , Jeong K. Lee , Steven S. Raman , Myron J. Tong , James Sayre
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.12.8632
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摘要: OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the presence intratumoral fat in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) could serve as an imaging biomarker predict a favorable prognosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS. After search radiology and pathology databases from January 2002 December 2010, cohort patients with fat-containing HCC imaged by chemical-shift MRI techniques matched nonfat-containing for TNM stage type subsequent treatment. number tumor progression, time progression (TTP), overall survival (OS) were determined each cohort. RESULTS. There 46 included Tumor more prevalent non-fat-containing (30 patients, 65.2%) compared (16 34.7%; p = 0.001). Distant metastasis occurred commonly (10 patient, 21.7%) (t...