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Clinical, mammographic, and sonographic determination of preoperative breast cancer size
Author(s) -
Fornage Bruno D.,
Toubas Olivier,
Morel Michel
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(19870815)60:4<765::aid-cncr2820600410>3.0.co;2-5
Subject(s) - medicine , mammography , breast cancer , radiology , mammary gland , ultrasound , breast tumor , ultrasonography , cancer , nuclear medicine
Clinical, mammographic, and sonographic preoperative size measurements were correlated with the values obtained at pathologic examination in a series of 31 patients with pathologically T1 (n = 23) and T2 (n = 8) breast carcinomas. Sonographic measurements demonstrated the highest correlation coefficient (r = 0.84), with the lowest residual standard deviation calculated in relation to the regression line. As a result, real‐time sonography yielded the most accurate determination of breast cancer size in this series. Sonographic tumor size determination has proved valuable when mammography failed to delineate the tumor, particularly in patients with dense breasts. It may also be recommended in the evaluation of tumor response to nonsurgical conservative treatment.