MRI Diagnosis of Clival Cancer and Sixth Nerve Palsy.
Journal
Journal of neuro-ophthalmology : the official journal of the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society
ISSN: 1536-5166
Titre abrégé: J Neuroophthalmol
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9431308
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 03 2023
01 03 2023
Historique:
pubmed:
14
7
2022
medline:
17
2
2023
entrez:
13
7
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Imaging diagnosis of clival cancer may be difficult, in part because of normal variation in marrow signal with aging. Identifying whether clival cancer has damaged the sixth cranial nerve is a further challenge because minimal clival abnormalities could impinge on the nerve, which travels very close to the clivus. Two neuroradiologists, who were unaware of previous imaging and clinical diagnoses, reviewed MRI studies of 25 patients with cancer but no clival involvement and no sixth nerve palsy, 24 patients with clival cancer but without sixth nerve palsy, and 31 patients with clival cancer and sixth nerve palsy. The radiologists were tasked with determining whether there was clival cancer, whether there was a sixth nerve palsy and its laterality, and with indicating the pulse sequences used to make those determinations. Both neuroradiologists correctly identified all 25 cases with a normal clivus. In about half of those cases, they depended on finding a homogeneously bright marrow signal; in the remaining cases, they excluded cancer by determining that the clivus was not expanded and that there were no focal signal abnormalities. Both neuroradiologists correctly identified clival cancer in 54 (98%) of the 55 cases with and without sixth nerve palsy. In doing so, they relied mostly on clival expansion but also on focal signal abnormalities. Both neuroradiologists were at least 80% correct in identifying a sixth nerve palsy, but they often incorrectly identified a palsy in patients who did not have one. When there was a one-sided signal abnormality or the clivus was expanded in one direction, both neuroradiologists were accurate in identifying the side of the sixth nerve palsy. Current MRI pulse sequences allow accurate differentiation of a normal from a cancerous clivus. When the marrow signal is not homogeneously bright in adults, cancer can be diagnosed on the basis of clival expansion or focal signal abnormalities. MRI is less accurate in predicting the presence of a sixth nerve palsy. However, the side of a unilateral palsy can be predicted when the clivus is clearly expanded in one direction or there is a focal signal abnormality on one side.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
Imaging diagnosis of clival cancer may be difficult, in part because of normal variation in marrow signal with aging. Identifying whether clival cancer has damaged the sixth cranial nerve is a further challenge because minimal clival abnormalities could impinge on the nerve, which travels very close to the clivus.
METHODS
Two neuroradiologists, who were unaware of previous imaging and clinical diagnoses, reviewed MRI studies of 25 patients with cancer but no clival involvement and no sixth nerve palsy, 24 patients with clival cancer but without sixth nerve palsy, and 31 patients with clival cancer and sixth nerve palsy. The radiologists were tasked with determining whether there was clival cancer, whether there was a sixth nerve palsy and its laterality, and with indicating the pulse sequences used to make those determinations.
RESULTS
Both neuroradiologists correctly identified all 25 cases with a normal clivus. In about half of those cases, they depended on finding a homogeneously bright marrow signal; in the remaining cases, they excluded cancer by determining that the clivus was not expanded and that there were no focal signal abnormalities. Both neuroradiologists correctly identified clival cancer in 54 (98%) of the 55 cases with and without sixth nerve palsy. In doing so, they relied mostly on clival expansion but also on focal signal abnormalities. Both neuroradiologists were at least 80% correct in identifying a sixth nerve palsy, but they often incorrectly identified a palsy in patients who did not have one. When there was a one-sided signal abnormality or the clivus was expanded in one direction, both neuroradiologists were accurate in identifying the side of the sixth nerve palsy.
CONCLUSION
Current MRI pulse sequences allow accurate differentiation of a normal from a cancerous clivus. When the marrow signal is not homogeneously bright in adults, cancer can be diagnosed on the basis of clival expansion or focal signal abnormalities. MRI is less accurate in predicting the presence of a sixth nerve palsy. However, the side of a unilateral palsy can be predicted when the clivus is clearly expanded in one direction or there is a focal signal abnormality on one side.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35830685
doi: 10.1097/WNO.0000000000001655
pii: 00041327-202303000-00019
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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Copyright © 2022 by North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors report no conflicts of interest.
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