Pregnancy-Associated Breast Cancer: What Radiologists Must Know

Pregnancy-associated breast cancer (PABC) is defined as breast cancer diagnosed during pregnancy, in the first year postpartum, or during breastfeeding. Imaging techniques play a significant role in the diagnosis of PABC. It is a challenging diagnosis since physiological changes seen in pregnancy an...

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Autores principales: Soto-Trujillo, Dafne, Santos Aragón, Lourdes N, Kimura, Yukiyoshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Radiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7549862/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33062467
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10343
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description Pregnancy-associated breast cancer (PABC) is defined as breast cancer diagnosed during pregnancy, in the first year postpartum, or during breastfeeding. Imaging techniques play a significant role in the diagnosis of PABC. It is a challenging diagnosis since physiological changes seen in pregnancy and breastfeeding may limit clinical suspicion and imaging utility. The patient's well-being and the fetus must be taken into consideration for diagnosis and treatment.
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spelling pubmed-75498622020-10-13 Pregnancy-Associated Breast Cancer: What Radiologists Must Know Soto-Trujillo, Dafne Santos Aragón, Lourdes N Kimura, Yukiyoshi Cureus Radiology Pregnancy-associated breast cancer (PABC) is defined as breast cancer diagnosed during pregnancy, in the first year postpartum, or during breastfeeding. Imaging techniques play a significant role in the diagnosis of PABC. It is a challenging diagnosis since physiological changes seen in pregnancy and breastfeeding may limit clinical suspicion and imaging utility. The patient's well-being and the fetus must be taken into consideration for diagnosis and treatment. Cureus 2020-09-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7549862/ /pubmed/33062467 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10343 Text en Copyright © 2020, Soto-Trujillo et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7549862/
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