Objective: Up to 60% of patients with a precancerous endometrial
lesion will ultimately be diagnosed with endometrial carcinoma. In the context of
endometrial carcinoma, adequate surgical staging—including lymph-node
assessment—should be performed and dictate the necessity of postoperative
adjuvant treatments. Our main objective was to evaluate the diagnostic
performance of preoperative Positron Emission Tomography-Computed Tomography
(PET/CT) in identifying concomitant endometrial cancer in patients with confirmed
precancerous endometrial lesions. Methods: All women diagnosed with a
precancerous lesion between 2010 and 2018 in our center were included in this
retrospective cohort study. Patients were then divided into groups according to
whether or not a PET/CT was performed preoperatively and the presence of
endometrial carcinoma at the final pathology. Results: A total of 128
patients met the inclusion criteria, of which 66 underwent PET/CT. The
sensitivity of PET/CT in identifying carcinoma was 78.3%, with a specificity of
79.1%. PET/CT failed to identify carcinoma in 5 out of 66 patients (7.6%). In
the PET/CT group, 18 of 23 patients (78.3%) had adequate surgical staging,
compared to only 4 of 31 patients (12.9%) in the standard group (p
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High diagnostic value of 18F-FDG PET/CT in detecting endometrial cancer in patients with precancerous endometrial lesions
Jessica Ruel-Laliberté1,*, Paul Bessette1, Éric Turcotte2, Ophélie Belissant2, Korine Lapointe-Milot1
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Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Division of Gynaecologic Oncology, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1H 5N4, Canada
2
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1H 5N4, Canada
Eur. J. Gynaecol. Oncol. 2021, 42(6), 1130–1137;
https://doi.org/10.31083/j.ejgo4206165
Submitted: 30 September 2021 | Revised: 18 October 2021 | Accepted: 25 October 2021 | Published: 15 December 2021
Copyright: © 2021 The Author(s). Published by IMR Press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Abstract
Keywords
Endometrial cancer
Precancerous endometrial lesions
Endometrial hyperplasia
Surgical staging
Lymphadenectomy
Endometrial intraepithelial neoplasia