TY - JOUR
T1 - The role of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography at response assessment after autologous stem cell transplantation in T-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma patients
AU - Sohn, Byeong Seok
AU - Yoon, Dok Hyun
AU - Kim, Kyu Pyo
AU - Kim, Shin
AU - Lee, Kyung Min
AU - Park, Jung Sun
AU - Lee, Dae Ho
AU - Ryu, Jin Sook
AU - Huh, Jooryung
AU - Hong, Il Ki
AU - Suh, Cheolwon
PY - 2013/10
Y1 - 2013/10
N2 - Although a few studies have evaluated the utility of 18F- fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) in treatment-naive T-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (T-NHLs), a few studies had been conducted to evaluate the role of FDG-PET in patients after treatment. A total of 41 patients with T-NHLs were included who underwent post-autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) PET for response assessment in addition to contrast-enhanced CT. The impact of post-ASCT PET on response assessment and predicting prognosis was retrospectively evaluated. Of the 41 patients, 11 (26.8 %) patients showed discordant response between two image modalities (Cohen's κ = 0.465). The additional PET study actually guides changing the post-ASCT response in six (54.5 %) of these 11 patients. Moreover, positive post-ASCT PET was associated with worse prognosis in event-free survival and overall survival than negative post-ASCT PET (P = 0.003 and P = 0.044, respectively). Excluding four patients in whom further confirmation was not available due to early mortality, in 22 lesions showing discrepancy between two image modalities, 12 lesions were true positive (N = 4) or true negative (N = 8) for PET and ten lesions were false positive (N = 7) or false negative (N = 3). The accuracy for the discrepant lesions was 54.5 % (12 of 22), the overall accuracy for the detected lesions was 76.7 % (33 of 43), and the overall accuracy for patients was 89.2 % (33 of 37). Post-ASCT PET was useful in response assessment after ASCT, and the positive post-ASCT PET result was associated with worse prognosis than the negative post-ASCT PET in patients with T-NHLs.
AB - Although a few studies have evaluated the utility of 18F- fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) in treatment-naive T-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (T-NHLs), a few studies had been conducted to evaluate the role of FDG-PET in patients after treatment. A total of 41 patients with T-NHLs were included who underwent post-autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) PET for response assessment in addition to contrast-enhanced CT. The impact of post-ASCT PET on response assessment and predicting prognosis was retrospectively evaluated. Of the 41 patients, 11 (26.8 %) patients showed discordant response between two image modalities (Cohen's κ = 0.465). The additional PET study actually guides changing the post-ASCT response in six (54.5 %) of these 11 patients. Moreover, positive post-ASCT PET was associated with worse prognosis in event-free survival and overall survival than negative post-ASCT PET (P = 0.003 and P = 0.044, respectively). Excluding four patients in whom further confirmation was not available due to early mortality, in 22 lesions showing discrepancy between two image modalities, 12 lesions were true positive (N = 4) or true negative (N = 8) for PET and ten lesions were false positive (N = 7) or false negative (N = 3). The accuracy for the discrepant lesions was 54.5 % (12 of 22), the overall accuracy for the detected lesions was 76.7 % (33 of 43), and the overall accuracy for patients was 89.2 % (33 of 37). Post-ASCT PET was useful in response assessment after ASCT, and the positive post-ASCT PET result was associated with worse prognosis than the negative post-ASCT PET in patients with T-NHLs.
KW - Autologous stem cell transplantation
KW - Positron emission tomography
KW - T-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
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U2 - 10.1007/s00277-013-1782-5
DO - 10.1007/s00277-013-1782-5
M3 - Article
C2 - 23689845
AN - SCOPUS:84883895051
SN - 0939-5555
VL - 92
SP - 1369
EP - 1377
JO - Annals of Hematology
JF - Annals of Hematology
IS - 10
ER -