Breast density and the likelihood of malignant MRI-detected lesions in women diagnosed with breast cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess whether mammographic breast density in women diagnosed with breast cancer correlates with the total number of incidental magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-detected lesions and the likelihood of the lesions being malignant.

Methods

Patients diagnosed with breast cancer meeting the EUSOBI and EUSOMA criteria for preoperative breast MRI routinely undergo mammography and ultrasound before MRI at our institution. Incidental suspicious breast lesions detected in MRI are biopsied. We included patients diagnosed with invasive breast cancers between 2014 and 2019 who underwent preoperative breast MRI. One reader retrospectively determined breast density categories according to the 5^th edition of the BI-RADS lexicon.

Results

Of 946 patients with 9

SUBMITTER: Sassi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10598189 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature