Keywords:
Breast, MR, Surgery, Outcomes, Multidisciplinary cancer care
Authors:
N. Healy, J. Tanner, R. Sinnatamby; Cambridge/UK
DOI:
10.1594/ecr2018/C-1509
Methods and materials
A review of all breast MRIs performed in the Cambridge Breast Unit from August 2015 to August 2017 was performed to identify those MRIs performed post-operatively.
Patients were referred for MRI following multidisciplinary review of conventional imaging and histology.
Only those patients who had their postoperative MRI performed within 4 months of original surgery were included.
MRI images were reported by at least 2 breast radiologists as per our departmental protocol with evaluation of breast morphology,
post contrast enhancement patterns with associated kinetics determined using CADstream (Merge Healthcare Inc.,
Chicago,
IL).
Electronic records and conventional imaging were reviewed to determine pathology and surgical outcomes.