Positive predictive value of specific mammographic findings according to reader and patient variables.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To evaluate the risk of cancer (positive predictive value [PPV]) associated with specific findings (mass, calcifications, architectural distortion, asymmetry) in mammographic examinations with abnormal results, to determine the distribution of these findings in examinations in which the patients received a diagnosis of cancer and examinations in which the patients did not, and to analyze PPV variation according to radiologist and patient factors.

Materials and methods

HIPAA-compliant institutional review board approval was obtained. PPV of mammographic findings was evaluated in a prospective cohort of 10,262 women who underwent 10,641 screening or diagnostic mammographic examinations with abnormal results between January 1998 and December 2002 in the San Francisco Ma

SUBMITTER: Venkatesan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2680167 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature