Abstract:
Objective To evaluate the clinical value of high-field-strength MRI in the diagnosis of recurrent gastric cancer compared with X-ray barium meal and gastroscope examinations.
Methods All the 53 cases of postoperative recurrence of gastric cancer underwent MRI, X-ray barium meal and gastroscopy examinations.Using the results of surgery or biopsy as the gold standard, the differences in categorical data were analyzed with the Chi square test.
Results Thirty postoperative recurrent gastric carcinoma in anastomotic stoma confirmed with pathological findings. There was ten cases with adjacent tissue infiltration and remote metastasis. Thirteen cases had no recurrent gastric carcinoma. The sensibility, specificity, accuracy, positive predictive value and negative predictive value for recurrent gastric carcinoma in anastomotic stoma for MRI, barium meal of alimentary canal and gastroscope were 96.6%, 86.9%, 92.4%, 90.6%, 95.2%; 70.0%, 86.9%, 77.3%, 87.5%, 68.9%; 96.6%, 91.3%, 94.3%, 93.5%, 95.4% respectively. The sensibility, specificity, accuracy, positive predictive value and negative predictive value for recurrent gastric cancer (including adjacent tissue infiltration and remote metastasis) were 97.5%, 76.9%, 92.4%, 92.8%, 90.9%; 52.5%, 76.9%, 58.4%, 87.5%, 34.4%; 72.5%, 84.6%, 75.4%, 93.5%, 50.0% respectively. There were significant differences between MRI and X-ray barium meal with respect to detect recurrent gastric carcinoma in anastomotic stoma and MRI is betterthan X-ray barium meal to detect recurrent gastric carcinoma in anastomotic stoma (χ2=4.90, P < 0.05). There were no significant differences between MRI and gastroscope with respect to detect recurrent gastric carcinoma in anastomotic stoma (χ2=0.03, P > 0.05). In examination of recurrent gastric carcinoma including adjacent tissue infiltration and remote metastasis, MRI shows statistical differences with X-ray barium meal(χ2=12.46, P < 0.05)and gastroscopy(χ2=5.26, P < 0.05).
Conclusions MRI had good diagnostic performance in identifying recurrent gastric carcinoma, which is better than X-ray barium meal and gastroscope examinations. It plays an important role in directing clinical therapy and is helpful to improve postoperative survival rate of gastric carcinoma.