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Neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial, malignant, solid tumor found in children. In more than one-third of cases, the tumor is in an advanced stage, with limited resectability. The treatment options include resection, with or without (neo-/) adjuvant therapy, and conservative therapy, the latter even with curative intent. Contrast-enhanced MRI is used for staging and therapy monitoring. Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) is often included. DWI allows for a calculation of the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) for quantitative assessment. Histological tumor characteristics can be derived from ADC maps. Monitoring the response to treatment is possible using ADC maps, with an increase in ADC values in cases of a response to therapy. Changes in the ADC value precede volume reduction. The usual criteria for determining the response to therapy can therefore be supplemented by ADC values. While these changes have been observed in neuroblastoma, early changes in the ADC value in response to therapy are less well described. In this study, we evaluated whether there is an early change in the ADC values in neuroblastoma under therapy; if this change depends on the form of therapy; and whether this change may serve as a prognostic marker. We retrospectively evaluated neuroblastoma cases treated in our institution between June 2007 and August 2014. The examinations were grouped as ‘prestaging’; ‘intermediate staging’; ‘final staging’; and ‘follow-up’. A classification of “progress”, “stable disease”, or “regress” was made. For the determination of ADC values, regions of interest were drawn along the borders of all tumor manifestations. To calculate ADC changes (∆ADC), the respective MRI of the prestaging was used as a reference point or, in the case of therapies that took place directly after previous therapies, the associated previous staging. In the follow-up examinations, the previous examination was used as a reference point. The ∆ADC were grouped into ∆ADCregress for regressive disease, ∆ADCstable for stable disease, and ∆ADC for progressive disease. In addition, examinations at 60 to 120 days from the baseline were grouped as er∆ADCregress, er∆ADCstable, and er∆ADCprogress. Any differences were tested for significance using the Mann–Whitney test (level of significance: p < 0.05). In total, 34 patients with 40 evaluable tumor manifestations and 121 diffusion-weighted MRI examinations were finally included. Twenty-seven patients had INSS stage IV neuroblastoma, and seven had INSS stage III neuroblastoma. A positive N-Myc expression was found in 11 tumor diseases, and 17 patients tested negative for N-Myc (with six cases having no information). 26 patients were assigned to the high-risk group according to INRG and eight patients to the intermediate-risk group. There was a significant difference in mean ADC values from the high-risk group compared to those from the intermediate-risk group, according to INRG. The differences between the mean ∆ADC values (absolute and percentage) according to the course of the disease were significant: between ∆ADCregress and ∆ADCstable, between ∆ADCprogress and ∆ADCstable, as well as between ∆ADCregress and ∆ADCprogress. The differences between the mean er∆ADC values (absolute and percentage) according to the course of the disease were significant: between er∆ADCregress and er∆ADCstable, as well as between er∆ADCregress and er∆ADCprogress. Forms of therapy, N-Myc status, and risk groups showed no further significant differences in mean ADC values and ∆ADC/er∆ADC. A clear connection between the ADC changes and the response to therapy could be demonstrated. This held true even within the first 120 days after the start of therapy: an increase in the ADC value corresponds to a probable response to therapy, while a decrease predicts progression. Minimal or no changes were seen in cases of stable disease.
Background
A bidirectional functional link between vestibular and fear-related disorders has been previously suggested.
Objective
To test a potential overlap of vestibular and fear systems with regard to their brain imaging representation maps.
Methods
By use of voxel-based mapping permutation of subject images, we conducted a meta-analysis of earlier functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies applying vestibular stimulation and fear conditioning in healthy volunteers.
Results
Common clusters of concordance of vestibular stimulation and fear conditioning were found in the bilateral anterior insula cortex, ventrolateral prefrontal cortex and the right temporal pole, bilaterally in the adjacent ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, cingulate gyrus, secondary somatosensory cortex, superior temporal and intraparietal lobe, supplementary motor area and premotor cortex, as well as subcortical areas, such as the bilateral thalamus, mesencephalic brainstem including the collicular complex, pons, cerebellar vermis and bilateral cerebellar hemispheres. Peak areas of high concordance for activations during vestibular stimulation but deactivations during fear conditioning were centered on the posterior insula and S2.
Conclusions
The structural overlap of both networks allows the following functional interpretations: first, the amygdala, superior colliculi, and antero-medial thalamus might represent a release of preprogramed sensorimotor patterns of approach or avoidance. Second, the activation (vestibular system) and deactivation (fear system) of the bilateral posterior insula is compatible with the view that downregulation of the fear network by acute vestibular disorders or unfamiliar vestibular stimulation makes unpleasant perceived body accelerations less distressing. This also fits the clinical observation that patients with bilateral vestibular loss suffer from less vertigo-related anxiety.
Background and purpose
The insula has important functions in monitoring and integrating physiological responses to a personal experience of multimodal input. The experience of chills in response to auditory stimuli is an important example for a relevant arousing experience coupled with bodily response. A group study about altered chill experiences in patients with insula lesions is lacking.
Methods
Twenty-eight stroke patients with predominantly insula lesions in the chronic stage and 14 age-matched controls were investigated using chill stimuli of both valences (music, harsh sounds). Group differences were analyzed in subjective chill reports, associated bodily responses (skin conductance response), lesion mapping, diffusion-weighted imaging and functional magnetic resonance imaging. Other neuropsychological deficits were excluded by comprehensive testing. Diffusion-weighted imaging was quantified for four insula tracts using fractional anisotropy.
Results
The frequency of chill experiences was comparable between participant groups. However, bodily responses were decreased for the stroke group. Whereas there was no association of lesion location, a positive association was found for the skin conductance response during aversive sounds and the tract connecting anterior inferior insula and left temporal pole in the stroke group. Similarly, functional magnetic resonance imaging activation in areas hypothesized to compensate for damage was increased with bodily response.
Conclusions
A decoupling of felt arousal and bodily response after insula lesion was observed. Impaired bodily response was related to an impaired interaction of the left anterior insula and the temporal pole.
Background
Chronic pain of different aetiologies and localization has been associated with less grey matter volume (GMV) in several cortical and subcortical brain areas. Recent meta-analyses reported low reproducibility of GMV alterations between studies and pain syndromes.
Methods
To investigate GMV in common chronic pain conditions defined by body location (chronic back pain, n = 174; migraine, n = 92; craniomandibular disorder, n = 39) compared to controls (n = 296), we conducted voxel-based morphometry and determined GMV from high-resolution cranial MRIs obtained in an epidemiologic survey. Mediation analyses were performed between the presence of chronic pain and GMV testing the mediators stress and mild depression. The predictability of chronic pain was investigated with binomial logistic regression.
Results
Whole-brain analyses yielded reduced GMV within the left anterior insula and the anterior cingulate cortex, for a ROI approach additionally the left posterior insula and left hippocampus showing less GMV across all patients with chronic pain. The relationship of pain with GMV in the left hippocampus was mediated by self-reported stressors in the last 12 months. Binomial logistic regression revealed a predictive effect for GMV in the left hippocampus and left anterior insula/temporal pole for the presence of chronic pain.
Conclusions
Chronic pain across three different pain conditions was characterized by less GMV in brain regions consistently described for different chronic pain conditions before. Less GMV in the left hippocampus mediated by experienced stress during the last year might be related to altered pain learning mechanisms in chronic pain patients.
Significance
Grey matter reorganization could serve as a diagnostic biomarker for chronic pain. In a large cohort, we here replicated findings of less grey matter volume across three pain conditions in the left anterior and posterior insula, anterior cingulate and left hippocampus. Less hippocampal grey matter was mediated by experienced stress.
Chills are emotional peaks especially in response toward acoustic stimuli. In the present study, we examined facial expressions associated with pleasant and unpleasant chill experiences during music and harsh sounds by measuring electromyographic activity from facial corrugator and zygomatic muscles. A rubber bulb could be pressed by the participants to report chill intensities. During harsh sounds, increased activation of both corrugator and zygomatic muscle was observed. Zygomatic muscle activity was even more pronounced when a chill experience was reported during such sounds. In contrast, pleasant chill experiences during music were associated with slightly increased corrugator activity compared with absent chills. Our data suggest that harsh sounds produce a painful facial expression that is even intensified when a chill experience is reported. Increased corrugator activity during chills toward music might refer to states of being moved. The results are discussed in the light of a proposed role of the chill in regulating social behavior. Our results suggest that recording facial muscle activity can be a valuable method for the examination of pleasant and unpleasant peak emotions induced by acoustic stimuli.
To evaluate the influence of the blood–brain barrier on neuronal gadolinium deposition in a mouse model after multiple intravenous applications of the linear contrast agent gadodiamide. The prospective study held 54 mice divided into three groups: healthy mice (A), mice with iatrogenic induced disturbance of the blood–brain barrier by glioblastoma (B) or cerebral infarction (C). In each group 9 animals received 10 iv-injections of gadodiamide (1.2 mmol/kg) every 48 h followed by plain T1-weighted brain MRI. A final MRI was performed 5 days after the last contrast injection. Remaining mice underwent MRI in the same time intervals without contrast application (control group). Signal intensities of thalamus, pallidum, pons, dentate nucleus, and globus pallidus-to-thalamus and dentate nucleus-to-pons ratios, were determined. Gadodiamide complex and total gadolinium amount were quantified after the last MR examination via LC–MS/MS and ICP-MS. Dentate nucleus-to-pons and globus pallidus-to-thalamus SI ratios showed no significant increase over time within all mice groups receiving gadodiamide, as well as compared to the control groups at last MR examination. Comparing healthy mice with group B and C after repetitive contrast administration, a significant SI increase could only be detected for glioblastoma mice in globus pallidus-to-thalamus ratio (p = 0.033), infarction mice showed no significant SI alteration. Tissue analysis revealed significantly higher gadolinium levels in glioblastoma group compared to healthy (p = 0.013) and infarction mice (p = 0.029). Multiple application of the linear contrast agent gadodiamide leads to cerebral gadolinium deposition without imaging correlate in MRI.
An aneurysmal fibrous histiocytoma is a rare cutaneous soft-tissue tumour which accounts for approximately 0.06% of all dermatopathologies. Metastasis is exceedingly uncommon, to the point that there have only been eight reported cases in the scientific literature. We present the case of a 25-year-old male with a primary aneurysmal fibrous histiocytoma located in the nuchal region which exhibited rapid growth and abrupt ulceration over a short time span and showed signs of locoregional aggressive infiltration. A subsequent histopathological analysis confirmed the presence of diffuse solid and cystic pulmonary metastases. Further genetic sequencing verified LAMTOR1-PRKCD fusion. This case report seeks to review the existing literature on aneurysmal fibrous histiocytoma, discuss the challenges of differential diagnosis and propose standardised diagnostic criteria.
Structural integrity of the insula and emotional facial recognition performance following stroke
(2023)
The role of the human insula in facial emotion recognition is controversially discussed, especially in relation to lesion-location-dependent impairment following stroke. In addition, structural connectivity quantification of important white-matter tracts that link the insula to impairments in facial emotion recognition has not been investigated. In a case–control study, we investigated a group of 29 stroke patients in the chronic stage and 14 healthy age- and gender-matched controls. Lesion location of stroke patients was analysed with voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping. In addition, structural white-matter integrity for tracts between insula regions and their primarily known interconnected brain structures was quantified by tractography-based fractional anisotropy. Our behavioural analyses showed that stroke patients were impaired in the recognition of fearful, angry and happy but not disgusted expressions. Voxel-based lesion mapping revealed that especially lesions centred around the left anterior insula were associated with impaired recognition of emotional facial expressions. The structural integrity of insular white-matter connectivity was decreased for the left hemisphere and impaired recognition accuracy for angry and fearful expressions was associated with specific left-sided insular tracts. Taken together, these findings suggest that a multimodal investigation of structural alterations has the potential to deepen our understanding of emotion recognition impairments after stroke.
Thermal ablation offers a minimally invasive alternative in the treatment of hepatic tumours. Several types of ablation are utilised with different methods and indications. However, to this day, ablation size remains limited due to the formation of a central non-conductive boundary layer. In thermal ablation, this boundary layer is formed by carbonisation. Our goal was to prevent or delay carbonisation, and subsequently increase ablation size. We used bovine liver to compare ablation diameter and volume, created by a stand-alone laser applicator, with those created when utilising a spacer between laser applicator and hepatic tissue. Two spacer variants were developed: one with a closed circulation of cooling fluid and one with an open circulation into hepatic tissue. We found that the presence of a spacer significantly increased ablation volume up to 75.3 cm3, an increase of a factor of 3.19 (closed spacer) and 3.02 (open spacer) when compared to the stand-alone applicator. Statistical significance between spacer variants was also present, with the closed spacer producing a significantly larger ablation volume (p < 0.001, MDiff = 3.053, 95% CI[1.612, 4.493]) and diameter (p < 0.001, MDiff = 4.467, 95% CI[2.648, 6.285]) than the open spacer. We conclude that the presence of a spacer has the potential to increase ablation size.
Introduction: Germany has established a national mammography screening program (MSP). Despite extensive awareness campaigns, the participation rate is only 54%, which is considerably below the European guidelines’ recommendation of at least 70%. Several reasons why women do not participate are already known. Telephone consultations along with invitation letters have improved the participation rate. Here, we analyzed the reasons for non-participation and offered barrier-specific counseling to examine which impediments can be overcome to improve participation. Study Design: In a randomized controlled trial, women who had not attended their proposed screening appointment in the MSP after a written invitation were contacted by telephone and asked why they did not attend. Barrier-specific counseling via telephone was then offered. Participation in the MSP was rechecked 3 months after counseling. Setting: 1772 women, aged 50–69 years, who had not scheduled a mammography screening after a written invitation were contacted by telephone and asked for their reasons for non-participation. Intervention: The reasons were recorded by the calling consultant and categorized either during the call or later based on their recorded statements. Afterward, the women received counseling specific to their statements and were given general information about the MSP. Main outcome measures: We categorized the reasons given, calculated their frequency, and analyzed the probabilities to which they could be successfully addressed in individual counseling. Participation rates were determined post-consultation according to the reason(s) indicated. Results: The data were analyzed in 2022. After exclusions, 1494 records were analyzed. Allowing for multiple reasons to be stated by every individual 3280 reasons for not attending were abstracted. The most frequent reason was participation in “gray screening” (51.5%), which included various breast cancer prevention measures outside the national MSP. Time problems (26.6%) and health reasons (17.3%) were also important. Counseling was most effective when women had not participated for scheduling reasons. Conclusion: Several reasons prevented women from participating in the MSP. Some reasons, such as time-related issues, could be overcome by telephone counseling, but others, like barriers resulting from fear of the examination procedure or its result, could not.