Screening with magnetic resonance imaging, mammography and ultrasound in women at average and intermediate risk of breast cancer.

Background: The addition of MRI to mammography and ultrasound for breast cancer screening has been shown to improve screening sensitivity for high risk women, but there is little data to date for women at average or intermediate risk.

Methods: Two thousand nine hundred and ninety-five women, aged 40 to 65 years with no previous history of breast cancer were enrolled in a screening program, which consisted of two rounds of MRI, ultrasound and mammography, one year apart. Three hundred and fifty-six women had a mutation, 370 women had a first-degree relative with breast cancer (and no mutation) and 2269 women had neither risk factor.

Wegener's granulomatosis of the breast: A case report.

Background: Differential diagnosis and detection of malignant lesions in mammography poses a challenge for many diagnosticians. Although mammography continues to be the best and cost-effective way to detect breast cancer, it has its limitations due in part to the radiological appearance of changes of a very rare condition. We are presented with changes that have met well-known radiologic criteria for the diagnosis of malignancy, yet they turn out to be benign, because they belong to a group of extraordinary lesions.

Diagnostic value of dynamic and morphologic breast MRI analysis in the diagnosis of breast cancer.

Background: Mammography is the most widely used method of breast imaging. However, its low sensitivity poses a problem. Breast MRI is one of so the called "complementary" breast imaging methods.

[Magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnosis of retrosternal anterior diaphragmatic hernia in an adult man].

The study presents a case report of a retrosternal anterior diaphragmatic hernia in a 46-year-old man presented with abdominal pain, nausea, dyspnoea and treated previously as for chronic pancreatitis. A strong suspicion of the diaphragmatic hernia was generated after chest radiograph. However, the exact diagnosis of the Morgagni hernia was established by magnetic resonance imaging.

[The role of preoperative hooked-wire localization of occult lesions for early detection of breast cancer].

Objectives: Nonpalpable small lesions, usually few millimeters in diameter, consist an important problem in the early diagnostics of breast cancer.

Design: An aim of this paper was an evaluation of usefulness of preoperative hooked-wire localization of such lesions for the detection of breast cancer.

Materials And Methods: Material consisted of 131 patients aged 37-77 in whom 132 procedures of preoperative hooked-wire localization were performed.