Open AccessChanges in sonoelastography indices of stiffness as a criterion of evaluation of efficiency of neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer
Author(s) -
Е. А. Бусько,
T. Yu. Semiglazooa,
В. В. Клименко,
A. V. Komiyakhoo,
A. V. Mshchenko,
V. V. Serniiglazoo
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
učënye zapiski sankt-peterburgskogo gosudarstvennogo medicinskogo universiteta im. akad. i.p. pavlova/učënye zapiski sankt-peterburgskogo gosudarstvennogo medicinskogo universiteta imeni akademika i. p. pavlova
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2541-8807
pISSN - 1607-4181
DOI - 10.24884/1607-4181-2014-21-1-62-66
Subject(s) - medicine , breast cancer , chemotherapy , oncology , neoadjuvant therapy , radiology , cancer
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the capabilities of sonoelastography to monitor neoadjuvant chemotherapy of breast cancer and to determine correlation between reduction of stiffness of the tumor and the grade of pathology response.