Prospective Comparison of Mammography, Sonography, and MRI in Patients Undergoing Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Palpable Breast Cancer

摘要: OBJECTIVE. The objective of our study was to determine the relative accuracy mammography, sonography, and MRI in predicting residual tumor after neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer as compared with gold standards physical examination pathology.SUBJECTS AND METHODS. Forty-one women stage IIB–III palpable were prospectively enrolled a investigating effects sequential single-agent (doxorubicin followed by paclitaxel or vice versa) on imaging. cohort consisted first 31 patients (age range, 31–65 years; mean, 45 years) who completed protocol. All underwent examination, before receiving each chemotherapeutic drug. Imaging studies reviewed two radiologists using conventional lexicons lesion analysis, findings clinical response pathology results.RESULTS. Complete, partial, stable defined b...