A pictorial review of the varied appearance of atypical liver metastasis from carcinoma of the breast
| Autor: | E Whipp, Mark Callaway, J Virjee, Huw Roach |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Liver Cirrhosis
Pathology medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Liver Neoplasms Breast Neoplasms General Medicine Disease Liver Failure Acute medicine.disease Metastasis Diagnosis Differential Breast cancer medicine Carcinoma Humans Female Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Radiology Differential diagnosis Tomography X-Ray Computed Breast carcinoma Complication business Cause of death |
| Zdroj: | The British Journal of Radiology. 78:1098-1103 |
| ISSN: | 1748-880X 0007-1285 |
| Popis: | Each year in the UK around 41 000 new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed and about 13 000 patients die of breast cancer. Breast cancer is the most common single cause of death among women aged 35–54 years. Each year 1 or 2 women in every thousand will be newly diagnosed with breast cancer. 75% of these will be post-menopausal women. 1 in 9 women in the UK will develop the disease. Metastases to the liver are a common complication of this condition occurring in up to 20% [1] of patients. The liver is the most common site of intra-abdominal metastastic disease. Whilst the vast majority of liver metastasis have a classic target appearance on ultrasound or produce an irregular area of low attenuation during the portal phase of contrast enhancement on CT, the pattern of metastatic disease can be extremely varied. This pictorial review demonstrates this variable appearance of liver lesions on a range of imaging modalities (Figure 1). |
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