Regional homogeneity of resting-state brain activity in knee osteoarthritis patients with chronic pain / 局解手术学杂志

Objective To study the changes of resting-state brain activity in knee osteoarthritis(KOA)patients with chronic pain.Methods The data of 21 KOA patients (KOA group) and 21 healthy controls (HC group) who underwent standard resting-state fMRI scan were analyzed with regional homogeneity (ReHo) method to observe the changes in the patients in contrast to the controls.Results Compared to HC group,patients of the KOA group showed ReHo changes in bilateral frontal lobe,bilateral parietal lobe,bilateral temporal lobe,bilateral cerebellum,limbic system and default-mode network.Conclusion Patients with chronic pain demonstrate abnormal neuron activities in the brain regions, and control loops not only related with pain but also related with emotive function disorder and cognitive impairment.

Imaging diagnosis of prostatic hyperplasia and prostate cancer / 局解手术学杂志

Objective To explore the methods of improving diagnosis correctness between the patients with prostate cancer and benign prostatic hyperplasia.Methods Totally 87 patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia or prostate cancer which confirmed by MRI and prostate biopsy for the PSA significantly increased in our hospital from July 2013 to March 2016 were collected.By using the three methods of the PI-RADS V2 score,the T2WI+DWI/ADC+DCE-MRI+MRS and PI-RADS V2 score+MRS to diagnose,and comparing with the pathology results,the diagnostic consistency of the two physicians were analyzed.The sensitivity,accuracy and specificity of three ways were compared,and the correlation between PI-RADS V2 score and Gleason score were calculated.Results The diagnostic consistency of the two physicians:PI-RADS V2 score,K=0.951;T2WI+DWI/ADC+DCE-MRI+MRS score,K=0.838;PI-RADS V2+MRSI score,K=0.937.The correlation between PI-RADS V2 score and Gleason score,r=0.871,P=0.001 4;diagnostic sensitivity,specificity and accuracy of PI-RADS V2 score were 77.3％,74.4％,75.9％;diagnostic sensitivity,specificity and accuracy of T2WI+DWI/ADC+DCE-MRI+MRS were 88.6％,76.7％,82.8％;diagnostic sensitivity,specificity and accuracy of PI-RADS V2+MRSI score were 86.4％,81.4％,83.9％,respectively.Conclusion Compared with the traditional diagnostic methods,the combination of new prostate report and data system and MRSI can improve the diagnostic accuracy of prostate cancer and benign prostatic hyperplasia.The PI-RADS V2 score is more objective and accurate in the description of the lesion,but the low signal of benign hyperplastic nodules in transitional zone should be dialogued carefully through a variety of image parameters.