Diagnostic performance of ultrasonography-guided core-needle biopsy according to MRI LI-RADS diagnostic categories
- Abstract
- Purpose: According to the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) guidelines, biopsy is a diagnostic option for focal hepatic lesions depending on the Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System (LI-RADS) category. We evaluated the diagnostic performance of ultrasonography-guided core-needle biopsy (CNB) according to LI-RADS categories.
Methods: A total of 145 high-risk patients for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) who underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) followed by CNB for a focal hepatic lesion preoperatively were retrospectively enrolled. Focal hepatic lesions on MRI were evaluated according to LI-RADS version 2018. Pathologic results were categorized into HCC, non-HCC malignancies, and benignity. The categorization was defined as correct when the CNB pathology and surgical pathology reports were identical. Nondiagnostic results were defined as inadequate CNB pathology findings for a specific diagnosis. The proportion of correct categorizations was calculated for each LI-RADS category, excluding nondiagnostic results.
Results: After excluding 16 nondiagnostic results, 131 lesions were analyzed (45 LR-5, 24 LR-4, 4 LR-3, and 58 LR-M). All LR-5 lesions were HCC, and CNB correctly categorized 97.8% (44/45) of LR-5 lesions. CNB correctly categorized all 24 LR-4 lesions, 16.7% (4/24) of which were non-HCC malignancies. All LR-M lesions were malignant, and 62.1% (36/58) were non-HCC malignancies. CNB correctly categorized 93.1% (54/58) of LR-M lesions, and 12.5% (3/24) of lesions with CNB results of HCC were confirmed as non-HCC malignancies.
Conclusion: In agreement with AASLD guidelines, CNB could be helpful for LR-4 lesions, but is unnecessary for LR-5 lesions. In LR-M lesions, CNB results of HCC did not exclude non-HCC malignancy.
- Author(s)
- 김동욱; 김소연; 강효정; 강지훈; 이승수; 심주현; 최상현; 신용문; 변재호
- Issued Date
- 2021
- Type
- Article
- Keyword
- Carcinoma; hepatocellular; Image-guided biopsy; Liver; Magnetic resonance imaging
- DOI
- 10.14366/usg.20110
- URI
- https://oak.ulsan.ac.kr/handle/2021.oak/7371
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- Publisher
- ULTRASONOGRAPHY
- Location
- 대한민국
- Language
- 영어
- ISSN
- 2288-5919
- Citation Volume
- 40
- Citation Number
- 3
- Citation Start Page
- 387
- Citation End Page
- 397
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