CE-Magnetic Resonance Mammography for the evaluation of the contralateral breast in patients with diagnosed breast cancer.

Purpose: To evaluate the role of contrast-enhanced Magnetic Resonance Mammography (MRM) in the evaluation of the contralateral breast in patients with recently diagnosed breast cancer.

Materials And Methods: Fifty patients with proved unilateral breast cancer, with a negative contralateral breast at physical examination, ultrasound and mammography, were studied with a 1.5 T magnet (Siemens, Vision Plus, Germany).

Breast lesion detection and characterization at contrast-enhanced MR mammography: gadobenate dimeglumine versus gadopentetate dimeglumine.

Purpose: To prospectively and intraindividually compare equivalent (0.1 mmol per kilogram of body weight) doses of gadobenate dimeglumine and gadopentetate dimeglumine for accuracy of detection and characterization of breast lesions at contrast material-enhanced magnetic resonance (MR) mammography.

Materials And Methods: Ethics committee approval and informed consent were obtained.

Low-dose multidetector-row CT angiography of the infra-renal aorta and lower extremity vessels: image quality and diagnostic accuracy in comparison with standard DSA.

To investigate the possibility of reducing X-ray exposure during multidetector-row spiral computed tomographic (MDCT) angiography and to compare the image quality and diagnostic accuracy of different dosages with digital subtraction angiography (DSA) in the evaluation of the infra-renal aorta and lower extremities vessels. Seventy-five patients, randomly divided into three groups of 25 patients each, were evaluated for atherosclerotic disease with four-row spiral CT angiography (4x2.5 mm) and DSA.

Color-coded automated signal intensity curves for detection and characterization of breast lesions: preliminary evaluation of a new software package for integrated magnetic resonance-based breast imaging.

Objectives: The objective of this study was to evaluate the value of a color-coded automated signal intensity curve software package for contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance mammography (CE-MRM) in patients with suspected breast cancer.

Materials And Methods: Thirty-six women with suspected breast cancer based on mammographic and sonographic examinations were preoperatively evaluated on CE-MRM. CE-MRM was performed on a 1.

Radial scars of the breast: contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance mammography appearance.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the appearance of contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance mammography (CE-MRM) in patients with suspected radial scar on mammography. Thirty women with radial opacities or black star findings at mammography, preoperatively underwent CE-MRM. Examinations were performed with a 1.

Laparoscopic splenectomy: multi-detector row CT for preoperative evaluation.

Purpose: To prospectively evaluate multi-detector row spiral computed tomography (CT) for determination of splenic volume, splenic vascular anatomy, and presence of accessory spleens and parenchymal lesions in patients who were undergoing laparoscopic splenectomy.

Materials And Methods: Twenty-two patients who were candidates for laparoscopic splenectomy underwent multiphasic multi-detector row CT. Two observers evaluated splenic volume with two hand-tracing editing modalities.