Sun Mi Kim1, Chae Yeon Lyou1,
Mijung Jang1
1Seoul National University Bundang
Hospital, Seongnam-Si, Gyunggido, Korea, Republic of
The
presence of axillary lymph node(LN) metastases in breast cancer is an
important factor in assessing prognosis and determines management. Although
surgical biopsy remains the gold standard for the diagnosis of axillary LN
metastasis but standard for surgical biopsy in monitoring for chemotherapy
response does not established yet. Comprehensive and sequential staging of
axilla using noninvasive diagnostic modalities has been approached and which
would represent an importance advance in the management of breast cancer
patients. This presentation evaluate the accuracy of comprehensive pre- and
post-neoadjuvant chemotheraphy axillary staging via MRI, ultrasound imaging
and positron emission tomography.
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