• Nucl Med Commun · May 2013

    Comparative Study

    Added value of SPECT/spiral CT versus SPECT in diagnosing solitary spinal lesions in patients with extraskeletal malignancies.

    • Yiqiu Zhang, Hongcheng Shi, Dengfeng Cheng, Lei Jiang, Yan Xiu, Beilei Li, Yushen Gu, and Shuguang Chen.
    • Department of Nuclear Medicine, Zhongshan Hospital, Shanghai, China.
    • Nucl Med Commun. 2013 May 1; 34 (5): 451-8.

    PurposeThe aim of this study was to investigate the added value of single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)/spiral computed tomography (CT) versus SPECT alone in the differential diagnosis of solitary spinal lesions in patients with extraskeletal malignancies.Materials And MethodsA total of 90 patients who had a solitary spine 'hot spot' that could not be definitively diagnosed using planar scintigraphy were enrolled in the study. SPECT/spiral CT was performed on the indeterminate lesions in the spine. Images were independently interpreted by two experienced nuclear medicine physicians. Each spinal lesion was graded on a four-point diagnostic scale (1, benign; 2, likely benign; 3, likely bone metastasis; 4, bone metastasis). The final diagnosis of each lesion was based on pathological confirmation or follow-up. κ scores were used to evaluate inter-reviewer agreement and agreement of the SPECT and SPECT/spiral CT diagnoses with the final diagnosis.ResultsFinal diagnoses revealed 25 bone metastases and 65 benign lesions. Forty percent (36/90) of the solitary spinal lesions were diagnosed as equivocal (likely benign or likely bone metastasis) according to SPECT, whereas only 5.6% (5/90) were diagnosed as equivocal according to SPECT/spiral CT. For SPECT/spiral CT-based and SPECT-based diagnoses, the κ scores for inter-reviewer agreement were 0.889 (P<0.001, 95% confidence interval 0.824-0.954) and 0.504 (P<0.001, 95% confidence interval 0.401-0.607). The diagnostic accuracies of SPECT/spiral CT and SPECT images were 91.1% (82/90) and 58.9% (53/90), respectively (χ2=24.919, P<0.001).ConclusionCompared with SPECT imaging alone, SPECT/spiral CT imaging was more accurate and valuable in the differential diagnosis of solitary spinal lesions in patients with extraskeletal malignancies.

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