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ArticleBiomedicines2022

PET/CT with

Luca Filippi, Oreste Bagni, Ermanno Notarianni, Adelchi Saltarelli, Cesare Ambrogi, Orazio Schillaci

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Article in Biomedicines, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Luca FilippiNuclear Medicine Unit, "Santa Maria Goretti" Hospital, Via Antonio Canova, 04100 Latina, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-4423-5496
Oreste BagniNuclear Medicine Unit, "Santa Maria Goretti" Hospital, Via Antonio Canova, 04100 Latina, Italy.
Ermanno NotarianniDiagnostic and Interventional Unit, "Santa Maria Goretti" Hospital, Via Antonio Canova, 04100 Latina, Italy.
Adelchi SaltarelliDiagnostic and Interventional Unit, "Santa Maria Goretti" Hospital, Via Antonio Canova, 04100 Latina, Italy.
Cesare AmbrogiDiagnostic and Interventional Unit, "Santa Maria Goretti" Hospital, Via Antonio Canova, 04100 Latina, Italy.
Orazio SchillaciDepartment of Biomedicine and Prevention, University Tor Vergata, Viale Oxford 81, 00133 Rome, Italy.
Ospedale Santa Maria Goretti · ITUniversity of Rome Tor Vergata · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Our aim was to assess the role of positron emission computed tomography (PET/CT) with 18F-choline (18F-FCH) or 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) submitted to 90Y-radioembolization (90Y-TARE). We retrospectively analyzed clinical records of 21 HCC patients submitted to PET/CT with 18F-fluorocholine (18F-FCH) or 18F-fluodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) before and 8 weeks after 90Y-TARE. On pre-treatment PET/CT, 13 subjects (61.9%) were 18F-FCH-positive, while 8 (38.1%) resulted 18F-FCH-negative and 18F-FDG-positive. At 8-weeks post 90Y-TARE PET/CT, 13 subjects showed partial metabolic response and 8 resulted non-responders, with a higher response rate among 18F-FCH-positive with respect to 18F-FDG-positive patients (i.e., 76.9% vs. 37.5%, p = 0.46). Post-treatment PET/CT influenced patients’ clinical management in 10 cases (47.6%); in 8 subjects it provided indication for a second 90Y-TARE targeting metabolically active HCC remnant, while in 2 patients it led to a PET-guided radiotherapy on metastatic nodes. By Kaplan−Meier analysis, patients’ age (≤69 y) and post 90Y-TARE PET/CT’s impact on clinical management significantly correlated with overall survival (OS). In Cox multivariate analysis, PET/CT’s impact on clinical management remained the only predictor of patients’ OS (p < 0.001). In our real-world study, PET/CT with 18F-FCH or 18F-FDG influenced clinical management and affected the final outcome for HCC patients treated with 90Y-TARE.

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18F-choline18F-FDG90Y-microsphereshepatocellular carcinomamolecular imagingpositron emission tomography

Identifiers

PMID36428565
PMCPMC9687226
OpenAlexW4309705296

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