Background: Preoperative MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) of the breast is likely to accurately stage the disease and thereby influence the surgical decision making in newly diagnosed non metastatic breast cancers. We assessed the impact of preoperative contrast-enhanced MRI in surgical management of women with early breast cancer. Design: Prospective retrospective study of 48 cases of newly de...

BACKGROUND In recent years there has been an increasing interest in MRI as a non-invasive diagnostic modality for the work-up of suspicious breast lesions. The additional value of Breast MRI lies mainly in its capacity to detect multicentric and multifocal disease, to detect invasive components in ductal carcinoma in situ lesions and to depict the tumor in a 3-dimensional image. Breast MRI ther...

Purpose: To assess whether multiparametric fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (MP FDG PET-MRI) using dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI), diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI), three-dimensional protonMRspectroscopic imaging (3DH-MRSI), and FDG-PET enables an improved differentiation of benign and malignant breast tumors. Experimental Design: Seventy...

Purpose: To assess whether multiparametric fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (MP FDG PET-MRI) using dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI), diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI), three-dimensional protonMRspectroscopic imaging (3DH-MRSI), and FDG-PET enables an improved differentiation of benign and malignant breast tumors. Experimental Design: Seventy...

PURPOSE To investigate the diagnostic performance and incidental lesion yield of 3T breast MRI if used as a problem-solving tool. METHODS This retrospective, IRB-approved, cross-sectional, single-center study comprised 302 consecutive women (mean: 50±12 years; range: 20-79 years) who were undergoing 3T breast MRI between 03/2013-12/2014 for further workup of conventional and clinical breast f...

PURPOSE The aim of this study is to assess the prevalence, the site and the nature of extra-mammary findings on breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and to determine its accuracy in the characterization of the discovered lesions. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective review of 308 female patients (mean age 50 ± 20) who underwent breast MRI with 1.5T device was performed. 125 out of 308 (40...

BACKGROUND Mammography is the principal breast cancer imaging technique; however, sensitivity is reduced, especially in dense breast tissue. Magnetic resonance imaging is increasingly used in the detection and characterization of breast cancers. The high sensitivity (95-100%) of MRI is consistently observed, and in many situations, MRI is proving superior to classical forms of imaging. Assessme...

Purpose This study aimed to evaluate the difference of mass in dynamic contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) characteristics between low-risk and non-low-risk breast cancers and to explore the possible pathological basis. Materials and Methods Approval from the institutional review board and informed consent were acquired for this study. The MR images of 104 patients with pat...

conclusions although in our study washout pattern was the most powerful indicator for malignant pathology in non mass like enhancing lesions, more studies with larger sample size needs in this regard. background several studies on the diagnostic efficacy of mri has not real consensus for the accuracy of mri characteristics in non mass like breast lesions, and the number of malignant lesions in ...