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Treatment-planning CT scan for breast and chest-wall irradiation: how many unexpected abnormalities could we detect?

Authors
 Min Jung Kim  ;  Eun-Kyung Kim  ;  Ki Chang Keum  ;  Byeong-Woo Park  ;  Eun Ju Son  ;  Ki Keun Oh 
Citation
 CLINICAL IMAGING, Vol.32(6) : 443-446, 2008 
Journal Title
CLINICAL IMAGING
ISSN
 0899-7071 
Issue Date
2008
MeSH
Adult ; Aged ; Breast Neoplasms/diagnostic imaging* ; Breast Neoplasms/epidemiology* ; Breast Neoplasms/radiotherapy ; Female ; Humans ; Incidence ; Incidental Findings ; Korea/epidemiology ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Radiography, Thoracic/statistics & numerical data* ; Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted/statistics & numerical data* ; Thoracic Neoplasms/diagnostic imaging* ; Thoracic Neoplasms/epidemiology* ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed/statistics & numerical data*
Keywords
Computed tomography (CT) ; Contrast enhancement ; Treatment planning ; Breast neoplasm ; Breast cancer ; Unexpected lesions
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to determine whether diagnostic interpretation of contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) images for radiation planning in breast irradiation detects a considerable number of unexpected abnormalities.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: One hundred thirty-one patients underwent treatment-planning CT scans for breast or chest-wall irradiation. A diagnostic radiologist prospectively reviewed each scan and determined the incidence of previously unknown findings, the impacts of such findings on treatment, and the need for additional radiological studies based on the CT interpretation.

RESULTS: Eighty-six scans were prospectively classified as negative findings, 27 scans were classified as incidental benign findings, 26 scans were classified as medically important findings of which only one case was metastatic.

CONCLUSION: The incidence of clinically important coexistent diseases in CT scans for radiation planning in breast irradiation is very low, although the CT scans were performed with intravenous contrast administration insofar as the preoperative evaluation was appropriate.
Full Text
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0899707108000855
DOI
10.1016/j.clinimag.2008.02.025
Appears in Collections:
1. College of Medicine (의과대학) > Dept. of Radiation Oncology (방사선종양학교실) > 1. Journal Papers
1. College of Medicine (의과대학) > Dept. of Radiology (영상의학교실) > 1. Journal Papers
1. College of Medicine (의과대학) > Dept. of Surgery (외과학교실) > 1. Journal Papers
Yonsei Authors
Keum, Ki Chang(금기창) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4123-7998
Kim, Min Jung(김민정) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4949-1237
Kim, Eun-Kyung(김은경) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3368-5013
Park, Byeong Woo(박병우) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1353-2607
Son, Eun Ju(손은주) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7895-0335
Oh, Ki Keun(오기근)
URI
https://ir.ymlib.yonsei.ac.kr/handle/22282913/107792
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