Pre-operative assessment of residual disease in locally advanced breast cancer patients: A sequential study by quantitative diffusion weighted MRI as a function of therapy

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
5491639	Magnetic Resonance Imaging	2017	34 Pages	PDF

Abstract

Pre-surgery information may serve as a guide to define cancer free margins and the extent of residual disease which may be useful in planning breast conservation surgery.

Keywords

NEC LABC Tumor margin NACT STIR PNR PPR ADC ROI DWI EPI short tau inversion recovery echo planar imaging Diffusion weighted imaging Solid tumor Breast conservation surgery BCs echo time Repetition time Locally advanced breast cancer Neoadjuvant chemotherapy apparent diffusion coefficient region of interest PCR

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Pre-operative assessment of residual disease in locally advanced breast cancer patients: A sequential study by quantitative diffusion weighted MRI as a function of therapy

Authors

Khushbu Agarwal, Uma Sharma, Rani G. Sah, Sandeep Mathur, Smriti Hari, Vurthaluru Seenu, Rajinder Parshad, Naranamangalam R. Jagannathan,