Mann RM

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Contact information

Ritse M. Mann, MD
Department of Radiology (667)
Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center
Geertgrooteplein 10
P.O.box 9101
6500 HB NIJMEGEN
the Netherlands
phone: +31 24 3618766
email: r.mann@rad.umcn.nl


Projects

  • The value of breast MRI in Invasive Lobular Carcinoma (ILC) of the breast
  • The value of preoperative MRI in the staging of operable breast cancer (Study closed prematurely due to new guidelines that impaired the ethical aspects of the study)
  • The value of breast MRI and MRS in the follow-up of breast cancer patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy (part of the INTENS study)
  • The value of USPIO enhanced imaging of the axilla in axillary lymph node staging of patients with breast cancer (the USPALS study, main investigator H. Neisingh)
  • MR-guided breast biopsies at 3T


Research interests

  • Breast Cancer
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Oncology
  • Dynamic Contrast enhanced Imaging
  • MR Spectroscopy
  • Tumor pathophysiology
  • Interventional Onco-Radiology


Publications

Peer reviewed

  • Boetes C, Mann RM. Ductal carcinoma in situ and breast MRI. Lancet. 2007 Aug 11;370(9586):459-60
  • Mann RM, Veltman J., Barentsz JO, Wobbes T, Blickman JG and Boetes C. The value of MRI compared to mammography in the assessment of tumour extent in invasive lobular carcinoma of the breast. Eur J Surg Oncol. 2007 Jun 14; (Epub ahead of print)
  • Mann RM, Hoogeveen YL, Blickman JG, Boetes C. MRI compared to conventional diagnostic work-up in the detection and evaluation of invasive lobular carcinoma of the breast: a review of existing literature. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. 2007 Feb 15; (Epub ahead of print)


Conference proceedings

MRM 2006 (Jena, Germany)

  • Mann RM, Boetes C. Differences between invasive ductal carcinoma and invasive lobular carcinoma of the breast. Eur Rad 16(S5): E12 – E16
  • Mann RM, Boetes C. Ultrafast sequences in magnetic resonance imaging of the breast. Eur Rad 16(S5): E16 – E20


Book chapters

  • Boetes C, Mann RM. Invasive Lobular Carcinoma: Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging. In: Cancer Imaging: Lung and Breast Carcinomas. Editor: M.A. Hayat (in press)