Method: Thirteen rectal cancer patients underwent MRI before and 24 h after intravenous infusion of USPIO contrast (Sinerem, Advanced Magnetics Inc, Cambridge, MA, USA). Total Mesorectal Excision (TME) surgery was followed by fixed specimen MRI. Lymph nodes seen on specimen MRI and those found...
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We investigated pathologic features that may affect response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) and response evaluation on pelvis diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) after NAC in clinically muscle-invasive bladder cancer. The concordance and discordance between MRI and RC findings occurred...
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Electronic calipers were used to measure the longest diameter of arterial enhancement of the index lesion in the axial plane. Both MRI and CT imaging modalities were used to quantify HCC tumor necrosis. The tumor response used for statistical analysis was measured one month following initial TACE ...
Abbreviations CRC: Colorectal cancer; CI: Conventional imaging; MDCT: Multi-detector computed tomography; MRI: Magnetic resonance imaging; CT: computed tomography; 18F PET/CT: Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography; FDG: 18F: Fluorodeoxyglucose. Competing interests The authors ...
Therefore, clinical guidelines in general discourage from testing for BRCA2 mutations in persons below age 18, given that screening for breast cancer in BRCA2 carriers (e.g. MRI scans of the breast) is generally only offered at age 25 and older [45, 46]. This should be part of a ...
2.4. MRI protocol The MRI experiments were performed on a 7 Tesla horizontal bore magnet (Pharmascan 70/16, Bruker BioSpin, Bruker Corporation, Germany) using a 23 mm ID mouse-head linear volume resonator. The mice were split into 4 groups. Three EAE exposed groups, EAE1, EAE2 and EA...