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Renal Angiomyolipoma with Minimal Fat: Differentiation from Other Neoplasms at Double-Echo Chemical Shift FLASH MR Imaging¹

¹ From the Departments of Radiology (J.K.K., S.H.K., Y.J.J., K.S.C.) and Urology (H.A., C.S.K., H.P.), Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan, 388-1 Poongnap-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul, 138-736, South Korea; and Department of Radiology, Pusan National University Hospital, Pusan, South Korea (J.W.L., S.K.). Received January 25, 2005; revision requested March 29; revision received May 18; final version accepted June 21. Address correspondence to J.K.K. (e-mail: rialto{at}amc.seoul.kr).

Purpose: To prospectively evaluate the diagnostic performance of double-echo gradient-echo (GRE) chemical shift magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in the differentiation of angiomyolipoma (AML) with minimal fat from other renal neoplasms, with pathologic examination or follow-up data serving as the reference standard.

Materials and Methods: Institutional review board approval and informed consent were obtained. Double-echo GRE chemical shift MR imaging was performed in 55 patients (29 men and 26 women; mean age, 49 years ± 14 [standard deviation]) with 55 renal tumors, including 37 (67%) pathologically proved tumors (23 renal cell carcinomas, nine AMLs, two oncocytomas, two lymphomas, and one reninoma) and 18 (33%) clinically diagnosed tumors (17 AMLs and one indeterminate malignancy). All tumors showed no intratumoral fat and had homogeneous enhancement and a prolonged or gradual enhancement pattern on biphasic helical computed tomographic scans. Signal intensity was measured in the renal tumor and spleen on in-phase and opposed-phase images. The signal intensity index and tumor-to-spleen ratio in AMLs and non-AMLs were calculated and compared with the Student t test. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis was performed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of the signal intensity index and tumor-to-spleen ratio and to extract the optimal cut-off values in the differentiation of AMLs and non-AMLs.

Results: The signal intensity index and tumor-to-spleen ratio were different between AMLs (42% ± 11 and –43% ± 17, respectively) and non-AMLs (5% ± 14 and –4% ± 16, respectively) (P < .001). The area under the ROC curve was 0.975 for the signal intensity index and 0.952 for the tumor-to-spleen ratio. For differentiation of AMLs from non-AMLs, sensitivity and specificity were (a) 96% and 93%, respectively, with a signal intensity index of 25% and (b) 88% and 97%, respectively, with a tumor-to-spleen ratio of –32%.

Conclusion: Double-echo GRE chemical shift MR imaging can be used to differentiate AML with minimal fat from other renal neoplasms.

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