• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권21호
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• pp.9487-9494
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• 2014

Background: The size of a hepatic neoplasm is critical for staging, prognosis and selection of appropriate treatment. Our study aimed to compare the radiological size of solid hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) masses on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with the pathological size in a Chinese population, and to elucidate discrepancies. Materials and Methods: A total of 178 consecutive patients diagnosed with HCC who underwent curative hepatic resection after enhanced MRI between July 2010 and October 2013 were retrospectively identified and analyzed. Pathological data of the whole removed tumors wereassessed and differences between radiological and pathological tumor size were identified. All patients were restaged using a modified Tumor-Node-Metastasis (TNM) staging system postoperatively according to the maximum diameter alteration. The lesions were classified as hypo-staged, iso-staged or hyper-staged for qualitative assessment. In the quantitative analysis, the relative pre and postoperative tumor size contrast ratio ($%{\Delta}size$) was also computed according to size intervals. In addition, the relationship between radiological and pathological tumor diameter variation and histologic grade was analyzed. Results: Pathological examination showed 85 (47.8%) patients were overestimated, 82 (46.1%) patients underestimated, while accurate measurement by MRI was found in 11 (6.2%) patients. Among the total subjects, 14 (7.9%) patients were hypo-staged and 15 (8.4%) were hyper-staged post-operatively. Accuracy of MRI for calculation and characterized staging was related to the lesion size, ranging from 83.1% to 87.4% (<2cm to ${\geq}5cm$, p=0.328) and from 62.5% to 89.1% (cT1 to cT4, p=0.006), respectively. Overall, MRI misjudged pathological size by 6.0 mm (p=0.588 ), and the greatest difference was observed in tumors <2cm (3.6 mm, $%{\Delta}size=16.9%$, p=0.028). No statistically significant difference was observed for moderately differentiated HCC (5.5mm, p=0.781). However, for well differentiated and poorly differentiated cases, radiographic tumor maximum diameter was significantly larger than the pathological maximum diameter by 3.15 mm and underestimated by 4.51 mm, respectively (p=0.034 and 0.020). Conclusions: A preoperative HCC tumor size measurement using MRI can provide relatively acceptable accuracy but may give rise to discrepancy in tumors in a certain size range or histologic grade. In pathological well differentiated subjects, the pathological tumor size was significantly overestimated, but underestimated in poorly differentiated HCC. The difference between radiological and pathological tumor size was greatest for tumors <2 cm. For some HCC patients, the size difference may have implications for the decision of resection, transplantation, ablation, or arterially directed therapy, and should be considered in staging or selecting the appropriate treatment tactics.

• Applied Microscopy
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.43-50
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• 2008

곡류, 두류, 과채류, 해조류, 버섯류 등의 식물성 원료를 가열처리하지 않은 상태에서 분말화한 것을 혼합한 생식의 성분 중 생리활성물질은 강력한 항산화 기능 및 일부 항암효과를 포함한 생리활성기능을 나타낸다. 본 실험은 BALB/c 마우스에 CT-28 대장암세포를 피하주사한 후 비타민 C와 생식을 급이함으로써 암조직의 증식에 따른 항암효과를 확인하기 위하여 수행하였다. 각 실험군은 CT-26 세포를 피하주사한 후 암조직의 크기를 5일 간격으로 6회 측정한 결과 비타민 C를 급이한 군은 암을 유도한 군과 암조직의 부피를 비교한 결과 통계학적으로 유의성은 없었으나 암세포 주입 후 10, 15, 20일째의 평균 암조직 부피에서 대조군은 각각 $155.8{\pm}75.8\;mm^3$, $238{\pm}102.9\;mm^3$, $525.0{\pm}291.7\;mm^3$인데 비해서 생식군은 48.1% ($80.8{\pm}60.0\;mm^3$), 43.2% ($135.2{\pm}117.2\;mm^3$), 55.5% ($233.6{\pm}248.2\;mm^3$)의 억제율을 보여주었다. 특히 25일과 30일째에는 대조군의 암조직 부피가 $989.7{\pm}596.8\;mm^3$와 $1589.7{\pm}1071.0\;mm^3$로 급격히 증가한 반면 생식군은 $304.6{\pm}442.5\;mm^3$와 $464.9{\pm}705.9\;mm^3$로 대조군에 비해 각각 69.2%와 70.7%의 감소율을 보임으로써 암조직의 증식이 현저히 억제된 결과를 보여주었다. 특히 30일째 암조직의 차이는 통계학적으로도 유의한 차이를 나타내었다(p<0.05). 따라서 생식은 CT-26 결장암 세포주에 의해 유도된 암증식을 억제하는 효과가 있는 것으로 생각된다.