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Article Dans Une Revue Frontiers in Oral Health Année : 2022

Evaluation of Proton MR Spectroscopy for the Study of the Tongue Tissue in Healthy Subjects and Patients With Tongue Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Preliminary Findings.

Salem Boussida
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Yvener François
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PURPOSE: To noninvasively assess spectroscopic and metabolic profiles of healthy tongue tissue and in an exploratory objective in nontreated and treated patients with tongue squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). METHODS: Fourteen healthy subjects (HSs), one patient with nontreated tongue SCC (NT-SCC), and two patients with treated tongue SCC (T-SCC) underwent MRI and single-voxel proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy ((1)H-MRS) evaluations (3 and 1.5T). Multi-echo-times (1)H-MRS was performed at the medial superior part (MSP) and the anterior inferior part (AIP) of the tongue in HS, while (1)H-MRS voxel was placed at the most aggressive part of the tumor for patients with tongue SCC. (1)H-MRS data analysis yielded spectroscopic metabolite ratios quantified to total creatine. RESULTS: In HS, compared to MSP and AIP, (1)H-MRS spectra revealed higher levels of creatine, a more prominent and well-identified trimethylamine-choline (TMA-Cho) peak. However, larger prominent lipid peaks were better differentiated in the tongue MSP. Compared to HS, patients with NT-SCC exhibited very high levels of lipids and relatively higher values of TMA-Cho peak. Interestingly, patients with T-SCC showed almost nonproliferation activity. However, high lipids levels were measured, although they were relatively lower than lipids levels measured in patients with NT-SCC. CONCLUSION: The present study demonstrated the potential use of in-vivo (1)H-MRS to noninvasively assess spectroscopic and metabolic profiles of the healthy tongue tissue in a spatial location-dependent manner. Preliminary results revealed differences between HS and patients with tongue NT-SCC as well as tongue T-SCC, which should be confirmed with more patients. (1)H-MRS could be included, in the future, in the arsenal of tools for treatment response evaluation and noninvasive monitoring of patients with tongue SCC.

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hal-03749905 , version 1 (11-08-2022)

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Salem Boussida, Yvener François, Adrien Heintz, Zuzana Saidak, Stéphanie Dakpé, et al.. Evaluation of Proton MR Spectroscopy for the Study of the Tongue Tissue in Healthy Subjects and Patients With Tongue Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Preliminary Findings.. Frontiers in Oral Health, 2022, 3, pp.912803. ⟨10.3389/froh.2022.912803⟩. ⟨hal-03749905⟩
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