Background and Objectives: Fine needle aspiration cytology is a widely used first line investigation for breast lesions in surgical practice. Gynecomastia is the most common lesion of male breast. FNAC is usually asked for male breast lesions in case of unilateral breast enlargement to rule out malignancy. This study was done to obtain sensitivity, specificity, other statistical parameters and ...

BACKGROUND Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become a diagnostic and problem solving method for the breast examinations in addition to conventional breast examination methods. Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) adds valuable information to conventional MRI. AIMS Our aim was to show the impact of apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values acquired with DWI to differentiate benign and maligna...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to evaluate the use of second-look ultrasonography (US) for investigating additional suspicious lesions detected on preoperative staging magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for breast cancer. METHODS Between September 2008 and August 2010, 1,970 breast MRIs were performed at our medical institution for the evaluation of breast cancer before surgery. Second-lo...

Background: Benign and high-risk breast lesions can be excised when symptomatic or for diagnotisc purposes. Although vacuum assisted excision (VAE) is a safe effective alternative to surgical excision(SE), most hospitals still use SE the management of benign high risk lesions. To evaluate health care benefit VAE, hospital costs cosmetic outcome after VAE were compared SE. Additionally, periods ...

OBJECTIVE Molecular breast imaging techniques, such as breast-specific gamma imaging, are increasingly being used as adjunctive diagnostic technologies to mammography and ultrasound. This multicenter clinical patient registry was designed to quantify the impact of this modality on the management of the breast patient population in clinical practice and to identify the subgroups of patients bene...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic performance of a novel quantitative shear wave elastography (SWE) of virtual touch tissue imaging quantification (VTIQ) in diagnosis of breast lesions. METHODS The conventional ultrasound (US) and VTIQ images of 133 pathologically proven breast lesions in 98 patients were assessed. The breast lesions were classified by US brea...

BACKGROUND Virtual Touch tissue quantification (VTTQ) is a promising new technology that quantitatively determines the stiffness of tissue. However, the clinical impact of this device on the assessment of breast cancer is unclear. METHODS This study aimed to review the ultrasound records of patients with breast lesions where VTTQ was used to assess 123 normal breast tissues, 18 benign tumors,...

OBJECTIVE We wanted to evaluate the role of diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) for detecting breast tumors, as compared with the T1- and T2-weighted images. MATERIALS AND METHODS Forty-one female patients underwent breast MRI, and this included the T1-, T2-, DWI and dynamic contrast-enhanced images. Sixty-five enhancing lesions were detected on the d...

ba c k g r o u nd: skin  metastases occur  in  1-5%  of  solid  tumors  and  are  rarely the presenting sign of internal malignancies. certain features in skin lesions raise suspicion of metastasis from solid tumors. c a s e presentation: in this article a 61-year-old woman is presented with erythematous skin nodules  in  upper  abdomen  and  chest. histopathological evaluation  of  lesions sug...

There is little information regarding flow cytometric DNA analyses of benign breast lesions. This prospective study consists of mammographic and pathological correlation of DNA flow cytometric analyses of specimen mammography-guided fine-needle aspirates (FNAs) of 189 consecutive benign breast lesions and 114 FNAs of adjacent normal tissue as a control. Clinical follow-up was also performed. An...