MRI features of phyllodes tumors of the breast

ZENG Xiao-wei; XU zhan-lei; SHU Yue-hong; YA NG xiao-jun

Abstract：Objective To study the MRI performance of phyllodes tumors and to improve the diagnostic level .Methods The MRI data of 13 patients with phyllodes tumors of the breast verified by histopathology were analyzed .The MRI fea‐tures analyzed included morphological features , signal intensity , appearance of dynamic contrast enhancement (DCE‐MRI) ,the type of time‐signal intensity curve(TIC) ,and the features on DWI ,and compared with the results of patholo‐gy .Results 13 cases of PTB were single .Tumor size is 6 .2 cm × 4 .2 cm~1 .2 cm × 1 .1 cm .4 tumors are lobular and seems like the fusion of multiple nodules ,9 tumors are mild lobular .Strip between leaf separated extends to the tumor in‐terna in 8 cases .Lesions showed middle signal or low signal on T1WI ,9 cases showed mixed high signal and 4 cases showed homogeneous high signal On T2WI .8 cases showed high signal and 5 cases showed slightly high signal on DWI(b=800 s/mm2 ) .6 cases were simultaneously detected ADC ,all tumors showed high signal .11 cases showed homogeneous enhancement and 2 cases showed heterogeneous with cystic unreinforced area on DCE‐MRI .Type Ⅱ of TIC were shown in 10 cases ,type in 2 cases and type Ⅲ in 1 case .Among the 13 cases of PTB ,9 lesions were benign and 4 were borderline tumors ,there is no malignant PTB .Conclusion The findings of PTB on MRI have some characteristics .MRI helps diag‐nosis of the PTB .