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Noncontrast MRI with advanced diffusion weighted imaging for breast cancer detection in a lactating woman

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is used for preoperative evaluation, high-risk screening, and other select indications for breast cancer. However, the interpretation of breast MR images in pregnant and lactating women is complicated by physiologic changes of the breast that may result in marked bac...

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Autores principales: Rodríguez-Soto, Ana E., Meriwether, Claire H., Park, Andrew J., Jr, Dennis W. Adams, Wallace, Anne, Ojeda-Fournier, Haydee, Dale, Anders M., Rakow-Penner, Rebecca
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7502779/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32994841
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2020.08.058
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Sumario:Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is used for preoperative evaluation, high-risk screening, and other select indications for breast cancer. However, the interpretation of breast MR images in pregnant and lactating women is complicated by physiologic changes of the breast that may result in marked background enhancement. Breast MRI with contrast administration is contraindicated in pregnancy. Restriction spectrum imaging (RSI) is an advanced diffusion-weighted (DW)-MRI method that theoretically reflects signal from cells with high nuclear-to-cytoplasm ratio without gadolinium-based contrast. This report describes a case in which RSI notably increased tumor conspicuity in a lactating woman, compared to contrast-enhanced (CE)-MRI and conventional DW-MRI.