Correlation of Intraoperative 5-ALA-Induced Fluorescence Intensity and Preoperative 11C-Methionine PET Uptake in Glioma Surgery

BACKGROUND: 5-Aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) is widely employed to assist fluorescence-guided surgery for malignant brain tumors. Positron emission tomography with 11C-methionine (MET-PET) represents the activity of brain tumors with precise boundaries but is not readily available. We hypothesized that quantitative 5-ALA-induced fluorescence intensity might correlate with MET-PET uptake in gliomas.

METHODS: Adult patients with supratentorial astrocytic gliomas who underwent preoperative MET-PET and surgical tumor resection using 5-ALA were enrolled in this prospective study. The regional tumor uptake of MET-PET was expressed as the ratio of standardized uptake volume max to that of the normal contralateral frontal lobe. A spectrometric fluorescence detection system measured tumor specimens' ex vivo fluorescence intensity at 635 nm. Ki-67 index and IDH mutation status were assessed by histopathological analysis. Use of an antiepileptic drug (AED) and contrast enhancement pattern on MRI were also investigated.

RESULTS: Thirty-two patients, mostly with Glioblastoma IDH wild type (46.9%) and anaplastic astrocytoma IDH mutant (21.9%), were analyzed. When the fluorescence intensity was ranked into four groups, the strongest fluorescence group exhibited the highest mean MET-PET uptake and Ki-67 index values. When rearranged into fluorescence Visible or Non-visible groups, the Visible group had significantly higher MET-PET uptake and Ki-67 index compared to the Non-visible group. Contrast enhancement on MRI and IDH wild type tumors were more frequent among the Visible group. AED use did not correlate with 5-ALA-induced fluorescence intensity.

CONCLUSIONS: In astrocytic glioma surgery, visible 5-ALA-induced fluorescence correlated with high MET-PET uptake, along with a high Ki-67 index.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:14

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Cancers - 14(2022), 6 vom: 11. März

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Shimizu, Kazuhide [VerfasserIn]
Tamura, Kaoru [VerfasserIn]
Hara, Shoko [VerfasserIn]
Inaji, Motoki [VerfasserIn]
Tanaka, Yoji [VerfasserIn]
Kobayashi, Daisuke [VerfasserIn]
Sugawara, Takashi [VerfasserIn]
Wakimoto, Hiroaki [VerfasserIn]
Nariai, Tadashi [VerfasserIn]
Ishii, Kenji [VerfasserIn]
Sakuma, Ichiro [VerfasserIn]
Maehara, Taketoshi [VerfasserIn]

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5-ALA
5-aminolevulinic acid
Glioblastoma
Glioma
Journal Article
MET-PET

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Date Revised 29.03.2022

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/cancers14061449

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NLM338568883