Predicting metastasis in clinically negative axillary lymph nodes with minimum apparent diffusion coefficient value in luminal A-like breast cancer.

CONCLUSIONS: The minimum ADC value of primary breast lesions predicts axillary LN metastasis in luminal A-like breast cancer with clinically negative nodes, with high sensitivity and high NPV.
PMID: 30937834 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Breast Cancer - March 31, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Kato F, Kudo K, Yamashita H, Baba M, Shimizu A, Oyama-Manabe N, Kinoshita R, Li R, Shirato H Tags: Breast Cancer Source Type: research