MRI-based 3D-printed surgical guides for breast cancer patients who received neoadjuvant chemotherapy

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 9; no. 1; pp. 11991 - 6
• Main Authors: Ko, Beom Seok, Kim, Namkug, Lee, Jong Won, Kim, Hee Jeong, Chung, Il-Young, Kim, Jisun, Lee, Sae Byul, Son, Byung Ho, Kim, Hak Hee, Seo, Joon Beom, Kim, Sung-Bae, Gong, Gyung-Yub, Kim, Guk Bae, Lee, Sangwook, Choi, Seung Hyun, Ahn, Sei Hyun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 19.08.2019; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 59/57; 631/67/1347; 692/4028/546; Adult; Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols - therapeutic use; Biopsy; Breast cancer; Breast Neoplasms - diagnosis; Breast Neoplasms - therapy; Chemotherapy; Combined Modality Therapy; Female; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; Magnetic resonance imaging; Magnetic Resonance Imaging - methods; Mammography - methods; Mastectomy; Mastectomy, Segmental - methods; Middle Aged; multidisciplinary; Neoadjuvant Therapy; NMR; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Patients; Printing, Three-Dimensional; Remission; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Surgery; Surgery, Computer-Assisted - methods; Treatment Outcome; Tumors

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the most accurate technique for evaluating residual tumor after neoadjuvant chemotherapy. However, precise determination of the extent of dispersed residual tumor in the breast following treatment remains a difficult task. We hereby introduce three-dimensional (3D...