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Genitourinary Ultrasound

Diagnostic value of preoperative and intraoperative contrast-enhanced ultrasound in differentiating bland from inferior vena cava tumor thrombus

  • Qiuyang Li ,
  • Nan Li ,
  • Shuyuan Liang ,
  • Yiru Wang ,
  • Yukun Luo ,
  • Jie Tang ,
  • Xin Ma ,
  • Xu Zhang
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  • 1. Department of Ultrasound, PLA General Hospital of China, Beijing 100853, China
    2. Department of Urology, PLA General Hospital of China, Beijing 100853, China
Corresponding author: Tang Jie, Email:

Received date: 2019-05-18

  Online published: 2020-02-22

Abstract

Objective

To evaluate the diagnostic value of preoperative and intraoperative contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) in differentiating bland from inferior vena cava tumor thrombus.

Methods

From October 2017 to March 2019, 60 cases of renal tumor who had inferior vena cava tumor thrombus and underwent laparoscopic surgery were selected. All patients underwent contrast-enhanced ultrasound before and during the operation to determine whether the tumor thrombus was combined with bland thrombus in typical enhancement mode, and postoperative pathological results were finally obtained. The sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value of preoperative and intraoperative contrast-enhanced ultrasound were statistically analyzed.

Results

All 60 patients with IVC tumor thrombus underwent robot-assisted laparoscopic radical nephrectomy and IVC thrombectomy. The tumor thrombus was accompanied by bland thrombus in ten cases. Two cases of bland thrombus were missed by preoperative contrast-enhanced ultrasound, and the necrotic tissues in the head of tumor thrombus in another two cases were misdiagnosed as bland thrombus by both pre-and intra-operative CEUS. The sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value of preoperative CEUS in differentiating bland thrombus from tumor thrombus were 80.0%, 96.0%, 93.3%, 80.0%, and 96.0%, respectively; the corresponding values of intraoperative CEUS were 100.0%, 96.0%, 96.7, 83.3%, and 100.0%.

Conclusion

Preoperative and intraoperative contrast-enhanced ultrasound performs well in the differential diagnosis of inferior vena cava tumor thrombus from bland thrombus, and it can provide important information and basis for the choice of operation mode, which is highly valuable in clinical application.

Cite this article

Qiuyang Li , Nan Li , Shuyuan Liang , Yiru Wang , Yukun Luo , Jie Tang , Xin Ma , Xu Zhang . Diagnostic value of preoperative and intraoperative contrast-enhanced ultrasound in differentiating bland from inferior vena cava tumor thrombus[J]. Chinese Journal of Medical Ultrasound (Electronic Edition), 2020 , 17(02) : 172 -177 . DOI: 10.3877/cma.j.issn.1672-6448.2020.02.016

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