Isolated clustered microcalcifications: diagnostic value of mammography--series of 400 cases with surgical verification.

Abstract

Use of these three preoperative criteria permits correct diagnosis of most such malignancies (90% in our series vs 67% diagnosed by the experts).

Mamografía y ecografía en la evaluación de las lesiones no palpables de la mama y su correlación anatomo-patológica.

“…De las características evaluadas en nuestro estudio no encontramos asociación estadísticamente significativa. Sin embargo, Lafontan et al (6), describe como signos sugerentes de cáncer la presencia de forma vermicular, la distribución linear o ramificada y la presencia de irregularidad en el tamaño; Sickles (7) encontró un mayor riesgo de malignidad a mayor número de MC visibles; Franceschi et al (12) encontraron dos criterios de las cuales 5 (13.51%) correspondieron a cáncer.…”

“…El examen físico y la mamografía son elementos complementarios en la evaluación de la mama, juntos detectan un 96 % de lesiones cancerosas y han probado ser efectivos en la reducción de la mortalidad y mejora en la sobrevida de las mujeres que lo padecen (4,5,6,7). La ecografía es una herramienta muy útil en la tipificación de estas lesiones ya que permite distinguir entre masas sólidas y quísticas, complementando la información que nos brinda la mamografía.…”

Preliminary investigation of the clinical usefulness of super-high-resolution LCDs with 9 and 15 mega-sub-pixels: observation studies with phantoms

“…On the other hand, the total sub-pixel number for 15-MsP was 2.15 9 6.45 (&13.87), thus, 15-MsP showed better ability than that for 9-MsP. In clinical mammography, shape evaluation of MCLs is important for diagnostic categorization [16,17]. Therefore, it was expected that the good shape discrimination ability indicated in the SSO shape study would be clinically effective.…”

“…The other was a shape discrimination study in which we used small round and square objects (SSO shape study). For diagnosis of breast cancer, radiologists have attempted to define criteria to pinpoint suspicious lesions and assist in the evaluation of MCLs by using various properties, such as the shape, size, location, and density of MCLs [16,17]. Because shape evaluation is very important in mammography reading, we added this shape discrimination study for evaluating the display quality of the LCDs.…”

Microcalcifications of the breast: how does radiologic classification correlate with histology?

“…Some of them (regional versus segmental) have been shown in the literature not to be of different statistical significance (7,14). Using data found in the current literature, we attributed the distribution modifiers to varying probability levels for malignancy (3,5,7,10,12,13,14). Thereby, we developed the standardized scheme that we used for classification of microcalcifications according to the BI-RADS H morphology and distribution parameters (see Table 1).…”