Frequency of hepatic contour abnormalities and signs of portal hypertension at CT in patients receiving chemotherapy for breast cancer metastatic to the liver

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 6-10

  Qayyum, Aliya ^a   Lee, Gerard K ^a   Yeh, Benjamin M ^a   Allen, Jill N ^b   Venook, Alan P ^b   Coakley, Fergus V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; CT; Liver neoplasms; Metastases; Therapy

Indexed keywords

CHEMOTHERAPY; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; TUMORS;

BREAST NEOPLASM; LIVER NEOPLASM; METASTASES; THERAPY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANASTROZOLE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BEXAROTENE; CAPECITABINE; CARBOPLATIN; DIATRIZOATE; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; EXEMESTANE; FALSODEX; GEMCITABINE; GOSERELIN; IOHEXOL; LETROZOLE; LEUPRORELIN; MEGESTROL ACETATE; MEGLUMINE DIATRIZOATE; NAVELBINE; PACLITAXEL; TAMOXIFEN; TRASTUZUMAB; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEPATIC CONTOUR ABNORMALITY; HEPATOMEGALY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER ATROPHY; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTOSYSTEMIC COLLATERAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENOMEGALY; VEIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALIFORNIA; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; INCIDENCE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33845636232     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2006.09.028     Document Type: Article

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