• Chin. Med. Sci. J. · Sep 2008

    Experimental study of inflammatory and metastatic lymph nodes with diffusion weighted imaging on animal model: comparison with conventional methods.

    • Hua-Dan Xue, Shuo Li, Hong-Yi Sun, Zheng-Yu Jin, and Fei Sun.
    • Department of Radiology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing.
    • Chin. Med. Sci. J. 2008 Sep 1; 23 (3): 166-71.

    ObjectiveTo investigate the feasibility of magnetic resonance (MR) diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) in discriminating inflammatory from VX2 carcinoma metastatic lymph nodes in rabbit model.MethodsTwenty New Zealand white rabbits were randomly divided into 2 groups. Complete Freund's adjuvant was injected into the bilateral dorsal footpads to set up ipsilateral lymphadenitis model (n = 10), and the other 10 rabbits received a subcutaneous implantation of VX2 tumor cell suspension (1.5 x 10(7) cells/mL) in both thighs to set up metastatic lymph node model. MR imaging scan covering the popliteal fossa and iliac fossa including short time inversion recovery echo-planar imaging DWI (STIR-EPI-DWI), T1-weighted imaging (T1WI) and T2-weighted imaging (T2WI) was performed 2 weeks after injection. T2WI signal intensity (SI), DWI SI, long/short axial ratio (LSR) and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values of the lymph nodes were evaluated in all cases. Right after MR imaging scan, popliteal and iliac fossa lymph nodes were collected for hematoxylin-eosin staining.ResultsTotally 33 lymph nodes larger than 5 mm, including 22 inflammatory and 11 metastatic ones, were successfully isolated and taken into pathological analysis. LSR showed no significant difference between the inflammatory and malignant lymph nodes (P > 0.05). Both benign and malignant lymph nodes appeared iso-intense on T1WI and hyperintense on both T2WI and DWI images with an even lower T1WI and higher T2WI SI core at the hilum. Both T2WI and DWI SI showed no significant difference between two pathological groups (P > 0.01) in popliteal fossa. The mean ADC value of inflammatory nodes [(1.199 +/- 0.281) x 10(-3) mm2/s] was significantly higher than that of metastatic nodes [(0.858 +/- 0.090) x 10(-3) mm2/s, P < 0.01]. On ADC map, a high ADC value central area could be seen in most of the lymph nodes no matter benign or malignant. ADC value gave out the largest area under curve (AUC(ADC) = 0.955) compared with other three indexes (AUC(LSR) = 0.488; AUC(T2WI SI)= 0.727; AUC(DWI SI) = 0.822) and gave the best sensitivity and specificity in lymph node differential diagnosis compared with the other three indexes.ConclusionsHigh quality DWI image can be obtained using STIR-EPI-DWI sequence in rabbit model. DWI is a new promising technique for differentiating inflammatory from metastatic lymph nodes. Compared with routine MR sequence, DWI could provide more useful physiological and functional information for diagnosis.

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