[Changes in CT findings in patients with liver metastases of breast cancer during effective intra-arterial infusion]

Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 1988 May;15(5):1733-7.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

A study was done of the changes occurring in the CT findings of 12 cases in which liver metastases were found after radical mastectomy for breast cancer, as a result of intermittent low-dose hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy using a reservoir, achieving PR. In four cases (33.3%) only shrinkage of the metastatic lesions was seen; in 3 others (25.0%), this was accompanied by irregularities in the margins of the liver surface; in the other 5 (41.7%), a high proportion of total, widespread compensatory deformity of the liver was observed. A tendency was noted for these changes to be more pronounced in cases in which the metastatic lesions occupied a large proportion of the liver. Hepatic degeneration appeared with a high frequency in cases where liver metastasis followed breast cancer, and it is considered that considerable care is necessary in evaluating the efficacy of treatment.

MeSH terms

  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / administration & dosage*
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use
  • Breast Neoplasms* / pathology
  • Breast Neoplasms* / surgery
  • Doxorubicin / administration & dosage
  • Humans
  • Infusion Pumps
  • Infusions, Intra-Arterial
  • Liver / diagnostic imaging*
  • Liver Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Liver Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Liver Neoplasms / secondary
  • Mastectomy
  • Mitomycin
  • Mitomycins / administration & dosage
  • Postoperative Period
  • Tegafur / administration & dosage
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed*
  • Uracil / administration & dosage

Substances

  • Mitomycins
  • Tegafur
  • Mitomycin
  • Uracil
  • Doxorubicin

Supplementary concepts

  • 1-UFT protocol