Jung Im Jung, Hak Hee Kim, Seog Hee Park, Sun Wha Song, Myeong Hee Chung, Hyeon Sook Kim, Ki Jun Kim, Myeong Im Ahn, Soon Beom Seo, Seong Tai Hahn
Breast cancer is the second most common cause of cancer-related death in women. In most patients, imaging demonstrates thoracic changes resulting from either treatment, complications of treatment, or tumor recurrence or metastasis. The postsurgical imaging appearance of the chest wall depends on the surgical method used (radical mastectomy, modified radical mastectomy, breast-conserving surgery, breast reconstruction). The most common surgery-related complication is seroma. Radiation therapy frequently causes radiation pneumonitis, which occurs approximately 4-12 weeks after the completion of therapy and is characteristically limited to the field of irradiation...
September 2004: Radiographics: a Review Publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc