著者

Mikako ENOKIZONO Minoru MORIKAWA Takayuki MATSUO Tomayoshi HAYASHI Nobutaka HORIE Sumihisa HONDA Reiko IDEGUCHI Izumi NAGATA Masataka UETANI

出版者

Japanese Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

雑誌

Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences (ISSN:13473182)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.13, no.4, pp.251-260, 2014-12-01 (Released:2014-12-22)

参考文献数

29

被引用文献数

15 21

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Purpose: We evaluated the rim patterns of intracranial meningiomas on nonenhanced (NE) and contrast-enhanced (CE) 3-dimensional fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (3D FLAIR) imaging on 3-tesla magnetic resonance (MR) imaging to clarify the associated imaging and pathological findings and the value of the rims in predicting tumor cleavability.Methods: Thirty-two patients with meningioma underwent tumor excision. We classified the rim patterns on 3D FLAIR, subdivided into “rim-NE,” a rim with relatively low signal intensity on NE 3D FLAIR and “rim-CE,” a rim with relatively high signal intensity on CE 3D FLAIR, into 4 grades by their extent from 0 (no rim visible) to 3 (rim visible over most of the tumor-brain interface) and correlated them with tumor size, grade of peritumoral brain edema, presence/absence of pial supply, grade of tumor-brain adhesion, and histological findings.Results: On NE 3D FLAIR, “rim-NE” was graded 0 in 5 patients, one in 5, 2 in 6, and 3 in 16. On CE 3D FLAIR, “rim-CE” was graded 0 in one patient, one in 13, 2 in 4, and 3 in 14. The grade of “rim-NE” correlated negatively with the grade of brain edema (P = 0.023) and positively with surgical tumor-brain cleavability (P < 0.001). It also correlated with the amount of connective tissue at the tumor-brain interface histologically (P = 0.041). Furthermore, a lower grade of “rim-NE” was more often seen in atypical than benign meningioma (P = 0.003). Although “rim-CE” was more prominent in tumors with pial supply on digital subtraction angiography (DSA) (P = 0.002), it was not useful in predicting tumor-brain adhesion or histological tumor grading.Conclusion: The rim pattern of meningioma on NE 3D FLAIR can predict surgical cleavability and histological tumor grading. A higher grade of rim pattern on CE 3D FLAIR suggests prominent pial supply to the tumor but has no added value in predicting tumor-brain adhesion and histological tumor grading.

著者

Naomi Miyamoto Hideaki Senjyu Takako Tanaka Masaharu Asai Yorihide Yanagita Yudai Yano Tsuyoshi Nishinakagawa Kenji Kotaki Chika Kitagawa Naoto Rikitomi Ryo Kozu Sumihisa Honda

出版者

東北ジャーナル刊行会

雑誌

The Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine (ISSN:00408727)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.232, no.1, pp.1-8, 2014 (Released:2014-01-09)

参考文献数

26

被引用文献数

1 13

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Air pollution in Japan caused respiratory disease, such as chronic bronchitis and asthma, in many individuals in the 1960s. Although air pollution has decreased, many victims of air pollution-related respiratory disease are limited in their activities of daily living because of respiratory symptoms. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of pulmonary rehabilitation in victims of air pollution-related chronic bronchitis or asthma. Subjects were enrolled in a 12-week (2-week inpatient followed by 10-week outpatient) pulmonary rehabilitation program. The program comprised conditioning, strength training, endurance training, and patient education. We assessed the Modified Medical Research Council (MMRC) dyspnea grade, pulmonary function, peripheral muscle force, incremental shuttle walk distance (ISWD), and physical activity at baseline and immediately after the program. Twenty-nine subjects (mean age 74.2 ± 10.1 years, 11 males) completed the program, including 11 subjects with COPD and 18 subjects with asthma. Following rehabilitation, the participants (n = 29) showed significant improvements in MMRC dyspnea grade, vital capacity % predicted, quadriceps force and ISWD (all P < 0.05). Sub-group analyses revealed that all these variables were significantly improved in subjects with asthma. In contrast, subjects with COPD showed significant improvements only in quadriceps force and ISWD (both P < 0.05). Thus, pulmonary rehabilitation is an effective method of improving exercise capacity and dyspnea in officially acknowledged victims of air pollution-related asthma. In conclusion, we recommend that patients with chronic bronchitis or asthma, resulting from exposure to air pollution, are referred for pulmonary rehabilitation.