ArticlePolish journal of radiology2019
Performance of breast magnetic resonance imaging in axillary nodal staging in newly diagnosed breast cancer patients.
Article in Polish journal of radiology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06001528 (Serum and Tissue Metabolite-based Prediction of Sentinel Lymph Node Metastasis in Breast Cancer), which is not on this map. Cited by 9 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Serum and Tissue Metabolite-based Prediction of Sentinel Lymph Node Metastasis in Breast Cancer
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.
- The predictive value of lymph node status pre-operation by ultrasound and MRI in early and newly diagnosed breast cancer.Clinical and experimental medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Diagnostic Test Accuracy of Apparent Diffusion Coefficient in Evaluation of Breast Cancer Lymph Node Metastasis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Cancer reports (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2025Pooled it
- Deep learning-based breast MRI for predicting axillary lymph node metastasis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Cancer imaging : the official publication of the International Cancer Imaging Society · 2025Pooled it
- Diagnostic Usefulness of Diffusion-Weighted MRI for Axillary Lymph Node Evaluation in Patients with Breast Cancer.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- Diffusion tensor imaging and diffusion-weighted imaging on axillary lymph node status in breast cancer patients.Diagnostic and interventional radiology (Ankara, Turkey) · 2022Article
- Comparison of nodal staging between CT, MRI, and [European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2022Article
- Diagnostic Value of Axillary Ultrasound, MRI, andEuropean journal of breast health · 2022Article
- Prediction of Metastasis in the Axillary Lymph Nodes of Patients With Breast Cancer: A Radiomics Method Based on Contrast-Enhanced Computed Tomography.Frontiers in oncology · 2021Article
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Abstract
purposeTo determine the diagnostic value of breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in detecting axillary metastatic node in newly diagnosed breast cancer, we assessed the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value (NPV) of breast MRI. MATERIAL AND
methodsData were collected retrospectively from January 2011 to December 2018. Preoperative breast MRI of women with newly diagnosed breast cancer were reviewed to evaluate the axillary nodal staging by using the morphological characteristic of metastatic axillary lymph node. Statistical analysis was performed to assess the performance of breast MRI in diagnosing metastatic axillary lymph nodes based on the pathological result.
resultsA total of 131 women with breast cancer were analysed. Two hundred and twenty-seven axillary lymph nodes from preoperative breast MRIs were considered to be metastasis. 65.65% (86 patients) of the breast MRI results matched with the pathological results: 37 patients with N0 stage, 39 patients with N1 stage, eight patients with N2 stage, and two patients with N3 stage. Sensitivity of breast MRI for axillary nodal staging was 98.5% (95% CI: 92-100%), and the negative predictive value was 96.4% (86.2-99.9%). Specificity of breast MRI for axillary nodal staging was 57.8% (44.8-70.1%) and the positive predictive value was 71% (60.6-79.9%).
conclusionsOur study showed that the breast MRI had a high sensitivity (98.5%) and high NPV (96.4%) in detecting metastatic axillary lymph nodes, but its specificity was only fair (57.8%). Overestimation and underestimation of the MRI in N staging were also found in 20.61% and 12.98% of cases, respectively.
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