Andersen, MB;
Bodtger, U;
Andersen, IR;
Thorup, KS;
Ganeshan, B;
Rasmussen, F;
(2021)
Metastases or benign adrenal lesions in patients with histopathological verification of lung cancer: Can CT texture analysis distinguish?
European Journal of Radiology
, 138
, Article 109664. 10.1016/j.ejrad.2021.109664.
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Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Distant metastases are found in the many of patients with lung cancer at time of diagnosis. Several diagnostic tools are available to distinguish between metastatic spread and benign lesions in the adrenal gland. However, all require additional diagnostic steps after the initial CT. The purpose of this study was to evaluate if texture analysis of CT-abnormal adrenal glands on the initial CT correctly differentiates between malignant and benign lesions in patients with confirmed lung cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this retrospective study 160 patients with endoscopic ultrasound-guided biopsy from the left adrenal gland and a contrast-enhanced CT in portal venous phase were assessed with texture analysis. A region of interest encircling the entire adrenal gland was used and from this dataset the slice with the largest cross section of the lesion was analyzed individually. RESULTS: Several texture parameters showed statistically significantly difference between metastatic and benign lesions but with considerable between-groups overlaps in confidence intervals. Sensitivity and specificity were assessed using ROC-curves, and in univariate binary logistic regression the area under the curve ranged from 36 % (Kurtosis 0.5) to 69 % (Entropy 2.5) compared to 73 % in the best fitting model using multivariate binary logistic regression. CONCLUSION: In lung cancer patients with abnormal adrenal gland at imaging, adrenal gland texture analyses appear not to have any role in discriminating benign from malignant lesions.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Metastases or benign adrenal lesions in patients with histopathological verification of lung cancer: Can CT texture analysis distinguish? |
| Location: | Ireland |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ejrad.2021.109664 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrad.2021.109664 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Adrenal gland, Computed tomography, Lung cancer, Texture analysis |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine > Department of Imaging |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10126112 |
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