OBJECTIVE Although mammography is the primary imaging method of the breast, incidental benign and malignant breast lesions are increasingly being detected on computed tomographies (CTs) performed to detect different pathologies. Therefore, the detection and accurate identification of these lesions is important. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the frequency, morphological features, and resul...

Introduction: Inflammatory pathology accounts for 5-10% cases of benign breast lumps. FNAC is a quick, cheap and diagnostic procedure for inflammatory breast lesions. It helps in differentiating between benign and malignant lesions. The common etiologies causing inflammatory lesions are mastitis, abscess, fat necrosis, duct ectasia, mammary tuberculosis, sarcoidosis, idiopathic granulamatous ma...

This study aimed to explore the diagnostic and prognostic values of contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) in breast cancer. Between September 2009 and October 2011, a total of 143 breast cancer patients and 161 healthy people were selected as case group and control group, respectively. After the identification of lesions by conventional ultrasound, all patients underwent CEUS. The CEUS images wer...

The aim of this study is to investigate the impact on image quality of using monochromatic beams for lower dose breast tomosynthesis (BT). For this purpose, modeling and simulation of BT and mammography imaging processes have been performed using two x-ray beams: one at 28 kVp and a monochromatic one at 19 keV at different entrance surface air kerma ranging between 0.16 and 5.5 mGy. Two 4 cm th...

We report a case of woman with a palpable lump on her left breast. On mammography, a huge mass located between the inner and the outer inferior breast quadrants of the left breast was found. The ultrasound examination realized later revealed a heterogeneous mass with smooth and lobulated borders. An MRI was also performed, showing an oval mass with heterogeneous areas of enhancement. Finally, a...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) and diffusion-weighted imaging in differentiating benign from malignant breast lesions, histopathologic subtypes of breast tumors, and to find a correlation with prognostic factors using 3T MR. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 165 patients aged between 16 and 78 years with 181 histopathologi...

BACKGROUND Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis (IGM) is a benign breast disease that has been described as a rare granulomatous inflammation (GI). It can mimic inflammatory breast cancer. MATERIAL AND METHODS We included women with a diagnosis of IGM referred to an oncologic hospital between January 01, 2007 and to March 31, 2011, with diagnosis of breast cancer, in whom biopsy reported GI, wit...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the correlation between surgicopathological findings and ultrasonic images of nonpalpable breast lesions. The study was composed of 220 nonpalpable breast lesions from 193 patients. The breast lesions were classified into soft tissue type (185 lesions) and calcification type (35 lesions). Of the 220 lesions, 62 (28%) were malignant. For soft tissue ty...