Purpose: To study the role of strain ultrasound elastography in diagnosis of solid breast lesions, and evaluate its capability in differentiating benign from malignant lesions, in comparison to histopathological diagnosis taken as the reference standard. Patients and Methods: A total of eligible 28 female patients with solid breast masses, were subjected in our prospective study; sampled in a s...

PURPOSE To evaluate the indications and impact of MRI of the breast as an assessment modality in population-based mammography screening. MATERIALS AND METHODS 135 consecutive contrast-enhanced MRI exams of the breast, which were performed between April 2007 and October 2012 as part of the assessment at one mammography screening unit before issuance of a final management recommendation (e. g. ...

Aim The aim of the study was to review two techniques that can be used to verify focal lesions in the breasts: fine-needle aspiration biopsy and core-needle biopsy. Material and methods Fifty-five articles (original papers and reviews), half of them published within the past 5 years, were included in the analysis. The authors also took their own experience into account. Results Pre-operativ...

Sonomammography is often the first additional examination performed in the diagnostics of breast diseases. The development of ultrasound imaging techniques, particularly the introduction of high frequency transducers, matrix transducers, harmonic imaging and finally, elastography, influenced the improvement of breast disease diagnostics. Nevertheless, as in each imaging method, there are errors...

BACKGROUND We conducted our study on 1110 patients with breast masses in order to investigate different aspects of power Doppler sonography (PDS) for differentiating between benign and malignant breast lesions and their prognostication. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was conducted on the women who were referred to the sonography units of University Hospitals for breast sonography and had a ...

Radiologists face the visually challenging task of detecting suspicious features within the complex and noisy backgrounds characteristic of medical images. We used a search task to examine whether the salience of target features in x-ray mammograms could be enhanced by prior adaptation to the spatial structure of the images. The observers were not radiologists, and thus had no diagnostic traini...

Abstract Background Axillary nodal status is crucial for the management of cases with recently diagnosed breast cancer; usually addressed via axillary ultrasonography (US) along tissue sampling in case suspicion. dissection and sentinel biopsy may be done, but are rather invasive, carrying a potential complication risk, which raises need non-invasive, reliable, pre-operative imaging. We aimed a...

BACKGROUND We evaluated whether performing contrast-enhanced breast MRI in addition to mammography and/or ultrasound in patients with nonpalpable suspicious breast lesions improves breast cancer management. METHODS The MONET - study (MR mammography of nonpalpable breast tumours) is a randomised controlled trial in patients with a nonpalpable BIRADS 3-5 lesion. Patients were randomly assigned ...

Objective: Computer classification of sonographic BI-RADS features can aid differentiation of the malignant and benign masses. However, the variability in the diagnosis due to the differences in the observed features between the observations is not known. The goal of this study is to measure the variation in sonographic features between multiple observations and determine the effect of features...