Article Dans Une Revue European Radiology Année : 2025

ESR Essentials: assessing the radiological response of liver metastases to systemic therapy—practice recommendations by the European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology

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The liver is a common site for metastatic spread, especially in advanced colorectal, breast, and pancreatic cancers. Imaging evaluation of liver metastases after systemic treatments like chemotherapy, targeted therapy, or immunotherapy is essential to distinguish treatment response from disease progression. The widely used response evaluation criteria in solid tumours (RECIST 1.1) focus on lesion size changes to evaluate treatment response. However, newer therapies, mainly targeted therapy and immunotherapy, often induce changes beyond size reduction, such as tumour necrosis, fibrosis, cystic transformation, calcifications, and modifications at the liver-tumour interface. These morphological and enhancement changes can be evaluated on CT and MRI and may better reflect the biological response in specific clinical settings. Overall, RECIST 1.1 criteria are recommended for assessing the radiological response of liver metastases after systemic treatment. The use of alternative radiological criteria validated on CT (such as Chun or Choi criteria) is recommended in specific clinical settings (e.g. metastatic colorectal cancer or metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumours). Additionally, CT and MR modifications that reflect fibrosis, necrosis, calcifications, and haemorrhage can serve as ancillary indicators of tumoural response. These alternative criteria and radiological findings should be systematically assessed, particularly in liver metastases with minimal size changes, to better identify responders.

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hal-05122290 , version 1 (20-06-2025)

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Marco Dioguardi Burgio, Maxime Ronot, Valérie Vilgrain. ESR Essentials: assessing the radiological response of liver metastases to systemic therapy—practice recommendations by the European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology. European Radiology, 2025, ⟨10.1007/s00330-025-11540-1⟩. ⟨hal-05122290⟩

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