Publications by authors named "Dionisia Mazzotta"

Background: A fair amount of microcalcifications sent for biopsy are false positives. The study investigates whether quantitative radiomic features extracted from digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) can be an additional and useful tool to discriminate between benign and malignant BI-RADS category 4 microcalcification.

Methods: This retrospective study included 252 female patients with BI-RADS category 4 microcalcifications.

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Few reports in literature describe triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) imaging findings. Aim of the study is to determine MR-features of TNBC compared to receptor positive cancer (nTNBC). From May 2014 to May 2015, we retrospectively enrolled 31 consecutive patients with histological diagnosis of TNBC and a control group of 31 consecutive nTNBC observed in the same period, out of 602 cancer, diagnosed in our department in the same year.

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