BACKGROUND Among women under the age of 40, screening mammography examinations are not performed routinely. An ultrasonography scan is considered to be a basic breast imaging examination among younger women. The purpose of this study was to analyze mammography images, as well as to evaluate the usefulness and role of mammography in breast cancer diagnostic processes in women of up to 45 years, ...

OBJECTIVE: The main purpose of the present study is to evaluate the accuracy of ultrasonography (BI-RADS) in the diagnosis of breast cancer whereas the additional specific objectives are to describe the frequency of different sonographic findings and evaluating interobserver agreement. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Images of 110 patients who had been referred for biopsy with previous diagnosis of brea...

INTRODUCTION The use of conventional imaging techniques, namely mammography (MMG) and ultrasound (US), for breast cancer (BC) detection in women at high risk for the disease does not bring optimal results in many cases. AIM The present study evaluated the effectiveness of magnetic resonance (MR) mammography (MRM) in cases where US and MMG failed to detect suspected breast lesions. MATERIAL ...

Little is known about the breast cancer risk factors or mammogram characteristics among Native-American women. Southwestern Native-American women have a low risk of breast cancer and a high risk of diabetes. Our purpose was to determine the prevalence of known clinical risk factors for breast cancer and their association with mammogram density in a sample of Southwestern Native-American women u...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate the validity of hook wire localization biopsy for non-palpable breast lesions which were detected by ultrasonography (USG) or mammography (MMG). METHODS In this retrospective study, USG or MMG-guided hook wire localization technique was performed on 83 patients who had non-palpable breast lesions. Then histopathological examination was perfo...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the correlation of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) features of breast lesions of Breast Imaging Reporting and Database System (BI-RADS) category 4 with histopathologic results. MATERIALS AND METHODS In a prospective study between December 2013 and April 2015, patients with suspicious mammographic and/or ultrasound findings referred for Breast MRI were evaluated. Patien...

Background: Ultrasound guided core needle biopsy is becoming a gold standard in the work up of suspicious breast lesion. In Iraq, radiologists are not taking lead performance. Objectives: To evaluate radiologist performance highlighting precession and accuracy procedure, concordance ultrasound histopathology, identifying challenges facing during procedure. Subjects Methods: A prospective study ...

INTRODUCTION: Fibroadenomas are one of the most common benign tumors breast in adolescent population. They account for 68% all masses and 44–94% biopsied lesions. can range from asymptomatic to painful rapidly growing that cause significant esthetic distortions breast. With examinations becoming women as young their 20s, excision using vacuum-assisted biopsy (VABB) became more common. The VABB ...

Amaç: Bu çalışmanın amacı meme muayenesi için hastaneye başvuran hastaların polikliniklerini ve bu uygulamalar sonrasındaki tanı sürecini incelemektir. İkincil da kanseri tanısı genel cerrahi (GC) poliklinikleri ile diğer dışı kliniklerin karşılaştırılmasıdır. Gereç Yöntemler: Hastanemizin 1 Ocak 2015-15 Haziran 2019 tarihleri arasında cerrahi(GC), Dahiliye (IM), Kadın Hastalıkları Doğum (OG) p...

Non-lactational mastitis is an inflammatory process in the breast tissue that not associated with lactation. The detection of a malignant transformation during inflammation often difficult, because it has similar clinical manifestations. Medical approach depends on characteristics processes which are received from data obtained radiation diagnostic methods: whether or there nodular formation in...