Gadolinium-enhanced MR angiography of the breast: Is breast cancer associated with ipsilateral higher vascularity?
| Autor: | Amel Saad, Dietmar Kivelitz, A.-E. Mahfouz, Matthias Taupitz, Hanan Sherif, S. Filimonow, Bernd Hamm |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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Gadolinium DTPA medicine.medical_specialty Contrast Media Breast Neoplasms Image subtraction Malignancy Magnetic resonance angiography Imaging Three-Dimensional Breast cancer Vascularity Predictive Value of Tests Image Processing Computer-Assisted Humans Medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Breast Aged Neuroradiology Neovascularization Pathologic medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Magnetic resonance imaging General Medicine Middle Aged Image Enhancement medicine.disease Maximum intensity projection Female Radiology medicine.symptom business Magnetic Resonance Angiography |
| Zdroj: | European Radiology. 11:965-969 |
| ISSN: | 1432-1084 0938-7994 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s003300000668 |
| Popis: | The aim of this study was to assess a possible association between breast malignancy and ipsilateral higher vascularity on gadolinium-enhanced MR angiography. One hundred six patients were examined by dynamic gadolinium-enhanced 3D MR imaging. Magnetic resonance angiographic views were generated by image subtraction and maximum intensity projection. The study included 85 patients with unilateral malignant breast neoplasms and 21 with unilateral benign lesions. Three blinded readers independently reviewed the MR angiograms after masking the lesions and the corresponding contralateral sites. The readers were asked to determine whether vascularity was higher on the right side, higher on the left side, or equal on both sides. The results were analyzed by the Kappa statistic and Pearson's chi-square test. The blood vessels of the breasts were clearly seen in all cases. There was good agreement among the observers (kappa > 0.54) in assessing vascularity on both sides. Breasts harboring malignant neoplasms were found to have a higher vascularity than the contralateral breasts (p < 0.005). This sign of malignancy had a sensitivity of 76.5%, a specificity of 57%, and an accuracy of 72.6%. Blood vessels of the breast can be depicted by MR angiography. Unilateral malignant neoplasms are associated with a higher ipsilateral vascularity. In conjunction with other indications of malignancy on gadolinium-enhanced MR images, a higher ipsilateral vascularity may serve as an additional sign of malignancy. |
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