title: [Breast MRI--principal role and future perspectives].
abstract: Breast MRI has been taking an important role to assess the extension of cancer more accurately compared with the conventional modalities such as mammography and ultrasonography. However, lower specificity has been sometimes pointed out. To avoid oversurgery, bilateral imaging is one of the solutions. U.S. or MRI guided biopsy is another option. MR spectroscopy and 3T MRI will have the potential to improve estimation of residual cancer after neoadjuvant chemotherapy or ablasion therapy.
authors.affiliation: Breast Surgical Oncology, Breast Center, St. Luke's International Hospital.
authors.forename: Seigo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nakamura
mesh_terms: D001940:Breast / Q000473:pathology; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging