美发现高能量MRI有助于手术医生预测癌症预后

 
一个外科小组最近发现，在外科决策中使用3特斯拉核磁共振影像(MRI)扫描仪，能够预测手术预后，从而改善患者病情，降低不成功肿瘤切除手术的可能性。

使用这种3特斯拉MRI扫描，来自三个专业领域Mayo诊所外科医生，包括神经外科、直肠科和整形外科，在手术之前，得到了所有5例患者的肿瘤以及与神经关系的详细影像资料，从而准确预测了那些患者能够从手术中获益。三例患者的肿瘤远离主要坐骨神经，肿瘤被成功切除。所有患者疼痛缓解，术后1年没有复发。其它2例发现肿瘤跨越血管，手术会损害神经，这些患者没有接受手术治疗。
 
High-power MRI Helps Surgeons Predict Cancer Outcomes
 
A surgical team has found that using a 3-Tesla magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner in surgical decision-making provides a new degree of potential to predict surgical outcomes that improves patient care by decreasing the possibility of unsuccessful tumor-removal surgeries.

With the 3-Tesla MRI images, Mayo Clinic surgeons from three specialties--neurosurgery, colorectal, and orthopedic surgery--obtained adequately detailed images of the tumor and nerve relationship before surgery in all five cases to accurately predict which patients would benefit from surgery. In three cases, the tumor was predicted to be distinct from the main sciatic nerve, and the tumor was effectively removed. All three patients experienced relief from pain and had no recurrent growth one year after surgery. In the other two instances, the tumor was predicted to be so tangled up in the nerve that surgery would have damaged the nerve. Those patients did not undergo surgery.