[MR-mammography assessment of tumor response after neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy of locally advanced breast carcinoma].

Purpose: We investigated the role of magnetic resonance mammography in monitoring tumour response of locally advanced breast cancer (LABC) after neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy.

Material And Methods: 17 patients with LABS had a magnetic resonance mammography and ultrasonography before and after neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy.

Results: After neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy 14 patients showed in MR-mammography less pronounced and prolonged enhancement without washout.

[Initial experiences with MR-mammography in after-care following surgical flap treatment of breast carcinoma].

Purpose: To demonstrate typical MR mammographic findings after plastic surgery of breast cancer.

Patients And Methods: Postoperative (7-38 months, median 13) MR mammographic examinations of 25 patients operated for breast cancer (11 latissimus dorsi-flaps (LAT), 14 rectus abdominis myocutaneous-flaps (TRAM)), were reevaluated. The examinations were performed with a breast coil at 1 T.

[Radiotherapy following a breast-preserving operation in breast carcinoma].

Between 1980 and 1988, 116 patients with invasive breast cancer were treated by limited surgery with axillary node dissection followed by radiation therapy. Radiotherapy was performed by individually computerized treatment planning. The target volume dose was 50 Gy to the whole breast followed by an electron boost of 10 Gy to the tumor bed.

T and B lymphocytes in alpha-chain disease.

The patients studied were diagnosed as suffering from alpha-chain disease by their clinicopathological features, malabsorption findings, X-ray, and presence of abnormal alpha-chain protein in their serum. The objective of the study was to determine any possible defect of the immune system in such patients. The rosette technique and surface immunofluorescence were used to enumerate the circulating T and B lymphocytes in these patients.