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Breast Cancer
Sonographic assessment of breast lesions correlates with MRI results
September 8th, 2005
Sonographic assessment of breast lesions correlates with MRI results to confirm the presence of cancer. "The value of [ultrasound] correlation for MRI-detected breast lesions in women with familial risk of breast cancer" was recently examined by investigators in Singapore. "From an initial dataset of 245 women with positive family history who had breast cancer surveillance involving mammography or MRI between November 1994 and February 2001, 179 subjects with follow-up data were selected." "A total of 43 women with 48 MRI-detected lesions underwent further assessment with US Histopathological correlation was available from 38 breast biopsies...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-09-08)
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