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Breast Cancer
Research conducted at G. Metrard and co-authors has provided new information about breast cancer
May 22nd, 2008
According to recent research from Angers, France, "A 39-year-old woman with locally advanced left breast cancer (T4 N0 M0) underwent equilibrium radionuclide ventriculography for baseline assessment of left ventricular function before neoadjuvant chemotherapy." "The left ventricular ejection fraction was 76% at 75 beats per minute, without localized wall motion abnormality. In the best septal left anterior oblique projection, a large photopenic ''halo'' surrounded the cardiac chambers, mimicking a pericardial effusion," wrote G. Metrard and colleagues. The researchers concluded: "In fact, this aspect resulted from an attenuation artifact by a large...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-05-22)
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