Breast MR Imaging: What the Radiologist Needs to Know

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the breast is being performed more frequently to improve primary and recurrent tumor detection, characterization, and response to therapy. Sensitivity of this test approaches 90% and the specificity ranges from 37% to 100%. We present a concise tutorial for the ge...

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Autores principales: Dhillon, Gurpreet S., Bell, Nick, Ginat, Daniel T., Levit, Alena, Destounis, Stamatia, O’Connell, Avice
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2011
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3205515/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22059150
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2156-7514.85655
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description Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the breast is being performed more frequently to improve primary and recurrent tumor detection, characterization, and response to therapy. Sensitivity of this test approaches 90% and the specificity ranges from 37% to 100%. We present a concise tutorial for the general radiologist with a pictorial review of common lesions identified with breast MRI.
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spelling pubmed-32055152011-11-06 Breast MR Imaging: What the Radiologist Needs to Know Dhillon, Gurpreet S. Bell, Nick Ginat, Daniel T. Levit, Alena Destounis, Stamatia O’Connell, Avice J Clin Imaging Sci Review Article Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the breast is being performed more frequently to improve primary and recurrent tumor detection, characterization, and response to therapy. Sensitivity of this test approaches 90% and the specificity ranges from 37% to 100%. We present a concise tutorial for the general radiologist with a pictorial review of common lesions identified with breast MRI. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2011-10-03 /pmc/articles/PMC3205515/ /pubmed/22059150 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2156-7514.85655 Text en Copyright: © 2011 Dhillon GS. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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