Abstract #1819

DKI and DCE-MRI in Identifying the Malignancy of Lymph Node during the Primary Staging of Rectal Cancer: MRI with Node-for-Node Matched Histopathology validation

Jie Yuan¹, Mengxiao Liu², Zhigang Gong¹, Kun Liu³, Hua Yang³, Yu Cao⁴, and Songhua Zhan¹

¹Department of Radiology, Shuguang Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China, ²MR Scientific Marketing, Siemens Healthcare, Shanghai, China, ³Department of Pathology, Shuguang Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China, ⁴Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Shuguang Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

We investigated the potential of Diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) and Dynamic Contrast Enhancement (DCE) to accurately detect lymph node (LN) metastases in rectal cancer. Our study showed that DKI and DCE-MRI may be useful to differentiate the TD and metastatic LN from benign LN.

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