Publications by authors named "Maria Carmela Grimaldi"
Article Synopsis
- Breast fibromatosis is a rare disease that can grow aggressively but doesn't spread to other parts of the body.
- Only a small percentage of people with breast fibromatosis have the disease in both breasts, which makes it even rarer.
- In this case, a 31-year-old woman showed signs of the disease that looked like breast cancer, had surgery, but her condition came back a few months later in both breasts.
Purpose: To determine the frequency of unindicated CT phases and the resultant excess of absorbed radiation doses to the uterus and ovaries in women of reproductive age who have undergone CT for non-traumatic abdomino-pelvic emergencies.
Materials And Methods: We reviewed all abdomino-pelvic CT examinations in women of reproductive age (40 years or less), between 1 June 2012 and 31 January 2015. We evaluated the appropriateness of each CT phase on the basis of clinical indications, according to ACR appropriateness criteria and evidence-based data from the literature.