ONKOCET Ltd. has exhibited the devices from its portfolio on the MEDTEC UK exhibition in Birmingham, April 2011 through our partner Medical & Partners.
N. Sotskova (1), A. Karpov (2), M. Korotkova (2), A. Sentcha (1)
(1) Outpatient Department Nr.1 of the Yaroslavl Railway Clinical Hospital attached to the JSC "RZhD", Russia
(2) Municipal Clinical Hospital Nr.9, Yaroslavl, Russia
Abstract- The purpose of the research was to reveal particularities of the electroimpedance images in different forms of infiltrative breast cancer. Among 558 patients, subjected to examination, 15 were diagnosed as having breast cancer. The research was carried out utilizing the electrical impedance computer tomograph «MEIK»®. Visual estimation of images of complicated form of breast cancer revealed deformation of the mammary gland contour in 50 % of the cases, subcutaneous fat infiltration - in 61 %, anatomic changes with displacement of internal structures in 78 %, perifocal infiltration in 94 %. The quantitative analysis established the following: the mean electrical conductivity index of a healthy mammary gland, as a rule, exceeded the index of the mean electrical conductivity of the affected one; and the index of the mean electrical conductivity of a tumour exceeded the index of the mean electrical conductivity of the affected gland almost two times. In case of noncomplicated nodular forms of breast cancer, when no visual changes were detected on the electroimpedance tomograms, the researchers identified hypoimpedance areas in the place of probable tumour location. The electrical conductivity index of these hypoimpedance areas, detected at several scanning planes, exceeded 0,95. The article is illustrated with electroimpedance mammograms and tables...
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