Focal breast edema associated with malignancy on T2-weighted images of breast MRI: peritumoral edema, prepectoral edema, and subcutaneous edema

Breast Cancer

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 66-70

  Uematsu, Takayoshi ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast; Edema; High signal intensity; MRI; T2 weighted image

Indexed keywords

ACUTE MASTITIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDEMA; HER2 BREAST CANCER; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY BREAST CANCER; LUMINAL BREAST CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MASTITIS; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERITUMORAL EDEMA; POSTOPERATIVE EDEMA; PREPECTORAL EDEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCUTANEOUS EDEMA; T2 WEIGHTED IMAGE; TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER; VENOUS CONGESTION; BREAST DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; PATHOLOGY; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE;

BREAST DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EDEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PECTORALIS MUSCLES; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE;

EID: 84922100183     PISSN: 13406868     EISSN: 18804233     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12282-014-0572-9     Document Type: Article

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