Are Irregular Hypoechoic Breast Masses on Ultrasound Always Malignancies?: A Pictorial Essay

Irregular hypoechoic masses in the breast do not always indicate malignancies. Many benign breast diseases present with irregular hypoechoic masses that can mimic carcinoma on ultrasonography. Some of these diseases such as inflammation and trauma-related breast lesions could be suspected from a pat...

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Autores principales: Kim, Youe Ree, Kim, Hun Soo, Kim, Hye-Won
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Radiology 2015
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Breast Imaging
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4644748/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26576116
http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2015.16.6.1266
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description Irregular hypoechoic masses in the breast do not always indicate malignancies. Many benign breast diseases present with irregular hypoechoic masses that can mimic carcinoma on ultrasonography. Some of these diseases such as inflammation and trauma-related breast lesions could be suspected from a patient's symptoms and personal history. Careful ultrasonographic examination and biopsy could help to differentiate these from malignancies.
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spelling pubmed-46447482015-11-16 Are Irregular Hypoechoic Breast Masses on Ultrasound Always Malignancies?: A Pictorial Essay Kim, Youe Ree Kim, Hun Soo Kim, Hye-Won Korean J Radiol Breast Imaging Irregular hypoechoic masses in the breast do not always indicate malignancies. Many benign breast diseases present with irregular hypoechoic masses that can mimic carcinoma on ultrasonography. Some of these diseases such as inflammation and trauma-related breast lesions could be suspected from a patient's symptoms and personal history. Careful ultrasonographic examination and biopsy could help to differentiate these from malignancies. The Korean Society of Radiology 2015 2015-10-26 /pmc/articles/PMC4644748/ /pubmed/26576116 http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2015.16.6.1266 Text en Copyright © 2015 The Korean Society of Radiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Are Irregular Hypoechoic Breast Masses on Ultrasound Always Malignancies?: A Pictorial Essay
title_sort are irregular hypoechoic breast masses on ultrasound always malignancies?: a pictorial essay
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