Utilidad del coeficiente de difusión aparente en resonancia magnética como método auxiliar para la diferenciación entre meduloblastomas y ependimomas de la fosa craneal posterior en niños y adultos tratados en el Hospital Carlos Van Buren de Valparaíso: Una experiencia preliminar
Usefulness of apparent diffusion coefficient in magnetic resonance as an auxiliary method for the differentiation between medulloblastomas and ependymomas of the posterior cranial fossa in children and adults treated at the Carlos Van Buren Hospital in Valparaíso: A preliminary experience
Rev. chil. radiol; 23 (3), 2017
Publication year: 2017
The use of the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been shown to be useful in the task of differentiating primary brain tumors. Our objective is to evaluate its use to differentiate between medulloblastomas and ependymomas.
We analyzed 37 cases:
21 medulloblastomas (average age 12 years) and 16 ependymomas (average age 5 years) of the posterior fossa treated at the Carlos Van Buren Hospital in Valparaíso between december 2005 and June 2015. There were 15 and 5 males in each group respectively. In addition to age and gender, ADC values of tumors (ADCt) and healthy tissue were collected. The ADCt values for medulloblastoma and ependymoma averaged 0.64 and 0.92 [x10-3 mm²/s] respectively (p< 0.001). The multivariate model included gender and ADCt, with a sensitivity of 0.95 and a specificity of 0.87 to predict medulloblastoma. We can conclude that ADC measurement helps differentiate tumors of different cellularity such as medulloblastoma and ependymoma.
El uso del coeficiente de difusión aparente (ADC) en resonancia magnética (RM) ha demostrado ser útil en la tarea de diferenciar tumores cerebrales primarios. Nuestro objetivo es evaluar su uso para diferenciar entre meduloblastomas y ependimomas.