Clinical utility of 18F-FDG-PET/MR for preoperative breast cancer staging.
Diomidis BotsikasAnastasia KalovidouriMinerva BeckerMichele CoperciniDahila Amal DjemaAlexandre BodmerSindy MonnierChristoph D BeckerXavier MontetBenedicte M A DelattreOsman RatibValentina GaribottoClaire Tabouret-ViaudPublished in: European radiology (2015)
• MRI alone and PET/MR have a similar overall diagnostic performance. • MRI alone has a higher sensitivity than PET/MR for local tumour assessment. • Both MRI and PET/MR have a limited sensitivity for nodal metastases. • Positive lymph nodes on MRI or PET/MR do not require presurgical biopsy.