PURPOSE To evaluate the upgrade rate of ultrasonography (US)-guided core-needle biopsy (CNB) of the breast for a pure mucocele-like lesion (MLL), to evaluate the clinical and radiologic features, and to correlate the image-pathologic features further on to guide the management of MLL. METHODS Between January 2003 and February 2013, 14-gauge US-guided CNB was performed in 18,111 cases. Thirty-...

results 81 females aged 24 to 67 years (mean 43 ± 9.2) met the inclusion criteria and had adequate samples for histopathologic study. 28 (34%) patients had ml, 46 (56.8%) patients had nml and 7 (8.6%) had both ml and nml. rate of normal result, epithelial hyperplasia, fibrocystic changes, fibroadenoma, papilloma, atypical hyperplasia, mixed fibrocystic changes and atypical hyperplasia, ductal c...

background: the role of the breast clinics is to diagnose breast cancer and reassure patients with benign disorders. one stop clinics - same day reporting - further reduce anxiety caused by the delay in the results. the first one stop clinic was introduced in squh–oman in september 2011. methods: this retrospective analysis of 395 consecutive cases presented to breast one stop clinic at squh wa...

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 ...

Background and aims. Breast cancer (BC) is the most frequently diagnosed leading cause of cancer-related death among women worldwide. For locally advanced diseases high-risk tumors, neoadjuvant therapy (NAT) treatment choice. Some studies show that mammographic density (MD) tumor margins presence microcalcifications play a prognostic role in BC patients. Hence, objective this retrospective stud...

In biomedical studies the outcome of interest may be an ordinal, rather than a dichotomous, class label such as progression of disease. An example of an ordinal variable is drug toxicity levels evaluated as mild, moderate or severe. Another example is the Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BIRADS) [1] classification system. After a mammogram is read, a subjective score is assigned based ...

Objective: To date, breast MRI is analyzed according to morphologic criteria, enhancement kinetics and the T2 characteristic of the breast lesion (1, 2). However, all these criteria show an overlap between benign and malignant lesions and the characterization of the lesion can be challenging. Diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) and ADC values are highly influenced by the lesions’ cellularity and t...

Introduction For pharmacokinetic modeling of dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) MRI time-course data, the standard model (SM) (1) implies effectively infinitely fast equilibrium transcytolemmal water exchange kinetics during the contrast reagent (CR) passage through tissue, while the more general shutterspeed model (SSM) (2) allows for effects of finite water exchange kinetics. In recent DCE-MRI s...

Case report We present the case of a 27-year-old woman who was referred to our hospital for further investigation, after worrying findings during a routine check-up performed in another hospital. Five years prior to this check-up, the patient was diagnosed with cancer of the left breast at the very young age of 22. The tumor was staged as pT2N0M0, with the histologic examination showing a poorl...