Comparative Evaluation of Palpable Breast Lumps by Digital Breast Tomosynthesis and MRI Breast with its Histopathological Correlation

Palpable Breast Lumps

Department of Surgery AL-Jamhoory Teaching Hospital Mosul Medical City Iraq. diagnostic approach of palpable breast lumps should involve the use of rapid, inexpensive, most accurate and least invasive methods to evaluate and distinguish between benign and malignant lumps in out patient clinics, such methods would benefit both patients and surgeons by  Promoting proper preoperative diagnosis an...

Evaluation of Clinically Palpable Breast Lumps with Digital Mammography, Sonography and Fnac: Case Study

Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women today (After lung cancer) and is the most common cancer among women, excluding non-invasive non-melanoma skin cancers. Worldwide, breast cancer comprises 22.9% of invasive cancers in women and 16% of all female cancers.1 Mammography has been the basic imaging method in breast diagnostics, and the only tool suitable for screenin...

Digital Breast Tomosynthesis and Breast MRI in the Treatment Planning of the Newly Diagnosed Breast Cancers

Mammography screening is one of the major medical advances of the last half century. Prior to the onset of screening in the U.S., the death rate from breast cancer had been unchanged since 1940. Screeening began in the mid 1980's and soon after, in 1990, the death rate began to fall. Each year there are now more than 30% fewer women who die from breast cancer each year than would have had scree...

Digital Breast Tomosynthesis

Cytological study of palpable breast lumps with their histological

Background: FNAC is an inexpensive and highly accurate means of diagnosing both benign and malignant breast lesions. The procedure provides a rapid and non-morbid diagnosis before the operation which enables the patient and the surgeon to discuss and plan therapeutic alternatives in a rational atmosphere. Objectives: To evaluate role of fine needle aspiration cytology in the diagnosis of breast...