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Comparing shear wave elastography of breast tumors and axillary nodes in the axillary assessment after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with node-positive breast cancer.

Jia-Xin HuangFeng-Tao LiuLu SunChao MaJia FuXue-Yan WangGui-Ling HuangYu-Ting ZhangXiao-Qing Pei
Published in: La Radiologia medica (2024)
SWE has the ability to characterize the extracellular matrix, and serves as a promising modality for evaluating axillary LNs after NAC. Notably, breast SWE outperform axilla SWE in determining the axillary status in breast cancer patients after NAC.
Keyphrases
  • neoadjuvant chemotherapy
  • sentinel lymph node
  • lymph node
  • extracellular matrix
  • positive breast cancer
  • locally advanced
  • early stage
  • transcription factor
  • squamous cell carcinoma
  • rectal cancer
  • radiation therapy