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Gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasm imaging: standard reporting templates

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Abstract

Purpose

Standardized reporting in radiology has an established role in numerous disease processes, with added benefits in oncology of reduced variability, and generation of a thorough and pertinent report with a focused and relevant conclusion. Many radiologists are not familiar with the imaging patterns of neuroendocrine neoplasm (NEN) spread and recurrence. This paper will present standardized CT, MRI, and PET templates for reporting gastroenteropancreatic (GEP) NENs and explain the rationale for including specific pertinent positive and negative findings, at various stages of disease management, based on site of origin.

Methods

Basic templates for initial and follow-up anatomic and molecular GEP NEN imaging were created with input from the multidisciplinary Society of Abdominal Radiology (SAR) Neuroendocrine Tumor Disease Focused Panel (NET-DFP). The templates were further modified and finalized after several iterations.

Results

Four main report templates were generated for (i) initial anatomic CT or MR imaging studies, (ii) follow-up anatomic CT or MR imaging studies, (iii) initial Somatostatin Receptor (SSTR) or FDG PET imaging studies, and (iv) follow-up SSTR or FDG PET imaging studies. Each study template was formatted to allow its integration into a dictation software directly and be modified as needed, with internalized instructions indicating where a drop-down menu or macro may be used to personalize the template as necessary.

Conclusion

These templates were created through a combination of multidisciplinary expert opinion discussion supported by literature review and provide basic structured reporting standards for GEP NEN anatomic and molecular imaging studies.

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Acknowledgements

We thank all members of the Society of Abdominal Radiology (SAR) Neuroendocrine Tumor Disease Focused Panel (NET-DFP) for refining the templates.

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  1. Nuclear Medicine, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University in St. Louis, 510 S. Kingshighway Blvd, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA

    Chadwick Barrs & Joyce Mhlanga

  2. Abdominal Imaging, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University in St. Louis, 510 S. Kingshighway Blvd, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA

    Malak Itani, Maria Zulfiqar & Joyce Mhlanga

  3. Abdominal Imaging, Department of Radiology, Michigan Medicine, 1500 E Medical Center Dr, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA

    Isaac R. Francis

  4. Abdominal Imaging. Department of Radiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd, Houston, TX, 77030, USA

    Ajaykumar Morani & Priya Bhosale

  5. Abdominal Imaging, Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic Hospital, 5777 E. Mayo Blvd, Phoenix, AZ, 85054, USA

    Motoyo Yano

  6. Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, University of Washington Medical Center, 1959 N.E. Pacific St, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA

    Amir Iravani

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Barrs, C., Itani, M., Zulfiqar, M. et al. Gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasm imaging: standard reporting templates. Abdom Radiol 47, 3986–3992 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00261-022-03677-0

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