ABSTRACT
Objective To observe the performance of two-dimensional echocardiography and CDFI of metastatic cervical lymph nodes in nasopharyngeal carcinoma before and after induction chemotherapy,and to predict the short-term effect of the lymph nodes after sequential chemoradiotherapy.Methods Forty patients with sixty-five metastatic cervical lymph nodes which were confirmed as nasopharyngeal carcinoma by biopsy and CT were studied.CDFI was used to observe its size,the peak systolic velocity (PSV),resistivity index (RI),and record its classification of blood flow before and after induction chemotherapy,after radiotherapy 1 to 2 months for ultrasound,respectively,and the measured values and short-term effect in cervical lymph node metastasized were compared.Results According to the changes of blood supply after induction chemotherapy,lymph nodes were divided into three groups,the group of improve blood supply was given priority (55 ％),blood supply to reduce and no change groups were 23 ％,22％,respectively.After induction chemotherapy and sequential radiotherapy,all lymph nodes were narrow,regression rate after induction chemotherapy in blood supply to reduce,improve and no change groups were 52％,36％,25％,respectively,the regression rates of sequential chemoradiotherapy were 90％,81％,70％,respectively,among three groups are in degressive tendency,differences were significant (P ＜ 0.05).The blood supply changes after induction chemotherapy related well with the regression rate of chemotherapy(r =0.572,P =0.000) and sequential radiotherapy(r =0.553,P =0.000).The regression rate of chemotherapy related well with the regression rate of sequential chemoradiotherapy(r =0.621,P =0.000).After chemotherapy three groups of lymph node RI decreased,the difference was significant compared with that before treatment (P ＜ 0.05).After chemotherapy the groups to reduce and improve of PSV had significant differences compare with that before treatment (P ＜ 0.05),the group of blood supply no change of PSV had no significant difference (P ＞ 0.05).Conclusion Application of CDFI can clearly and accurately observe changes of metastatic cervical lymph nodes from nasopharyngeal carcinoma before and after induction chemotherapy,and the changes of blood supply and size after induction chemotherapy can predict the short-term effect after chemoradiotherapy.