OBJECTIVE To determine the change over mammographic diagnosis, BI-RADS category and management following targeted ultrasound of an indeterminate lesion seen on mammography and associated factors, if any. STUDY DESIGN Descriptive, analytical study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Radiology Department, The Aga Khan University Hospital and Clifton Medical Services, Karachi, from April 2010 to May ...

BACKGROUND Whole breast irradiation after conserving surgery for breast cancer requires precise definition of the target volume. The standard approach uses computed tomography (CT) images. However, since fatty breast and non-breast tissues have similar electronic densities, difficulties in differentiating between them hamper breast volume delineation. To overcome this limitation the breast cont...

background post-mastectomy breast reconstruction is commonly performed in the united states with numerous options available to patients and providers. this study evaluated patient race and provider in prediction of patient satisfaction following post-mastectomy breast reconstruction. methods the patient satisfaction for women who underwent post mastectomy breast reconstruction at university of ...

introduction: breast neoplasia is the most common cancer among women in both developed and developing countries. over 1.15 million women in the world detecting with breast neoplasia each year and the mortality rate is 502,000 cases from this cancer. the purpose of this study was to describe how iranian women perform breast self-examination. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study 4...

background: breast implant associated anaplastic large t- cell lymphoma is a rare type of non-hodgkin lymphoma, with a reported incidence of 0.3% per 100,000 women with breast prosthesis per year. it presents most commonly as a peri-implant seroma, but may also present as a capsular mass, tumor erosion through skin, in a regional lymph node, or found incidentally during revision surgery. case p...

breast conservation surgery combined with radiation therapy is now an accepted option for the treatment of early breast cancer. so we decided to evaluate the results of such treatment in our first group of patients treated by this method. from 1992 to 1996 , one hundred patients with stage i and ii breast cancer treated with breast conservative surgery (lumpectomy or quadrantectomy). were irrad...

The prognosis of breast cancer occurs in young women is usually poor. Red cell distribution width (RDW), 1 of many routinely examined parameters, has recently been proposed as a prognostic marker in solid tumors. The aim of our study was to assess the predictive value of RDW for survival in young women with breast cancer.We reviewed 203 consecutive young female patients (under 40) with invasive...

[Purpose] The aim of this study was to identify biochemical markers related to breast density. The study was performed with 200 patients who received mammography and biochemical marker testing between March 1, 2014 to October 1, 2014. [Subjects and Methods] Following the American College of Radiology, Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (ACR BI-RADS), breast parenchymal pattern density fro...

the present research is a field study in order to investigate scale and ways of doing breast self examination (bse). 270 nurses employed by the medical sciences university’s hospitals related to the ministry of health, and medical education in city of tehran are selected and involved in research on the basis of simple random sampling. the data collection tool was a protrayed questionnaire which...