Quantitative perfusion characteristics of contrast-enhanced ultrasound of uterine fibroids in predicting effect of ultrasound ablation / 中国介入影像与治疗学

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the value of quantitative parameters of CEUS in predicting the effect of ultrasound ablation of uterine fibroids.Methods Sixty-three patients with uterine fibroids underwent CEUS before operation.The software of gray level measurement in JC HIFU system was used to obtain quantitative parameters of uterine fibroids perfusion.According to postoperative enhanced MR examination,the results were divided into satisfactory group (ablation rate≥70 ％) and partial ablation group (ablation rate＜ 70 ％).CEUS parameters of two groups were compared,and the correlation between parameters and ablation rate were analyzed.The predictive value was evaluated by ROC curve.Results There were significant differences in the time of arrival (AT),time to peak (TTP),enhancement time (ET),enhancement intensity (EI) and enhancement rate (ER) between the two groups (all P＜0.01).The AT,TTP and ET were positively correlated with the ablation rate (all P＜0.01),and the EI and ER were negatively correlated with the ablation rate (both P＜0.001).The area under the curve (AUC) of AT,TTP,ET,EI,ER were all greater than 0.7,among which ER had the highest predictive value (AUC-0.935).Using ER=5.23 as the cut-off point,the sensitivity of predicting ablation effect was 80.0％,specificity was 95.8％.Conclusion There is a certain correlation between the ultrasound ablation effect of uterine fibroids and the quantitative parameters of CEUS.ER can be used as a good predictor of ablation effect.