Does digital mammography increase detection of high-risk breast lesions presenting as calcifications?

Objective: The objective of our study was to evaluate whether the transition from film-screen mammography (FSM) to digital mammography (DM) was associated with increased detection of high-risk breast lesions.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective search identified 142 cases of atypia or lobular neoplasia (LN) diagnosed in women with mammographic calcifications between January 2004 and August 2010. We excluded lesions upgraded to cancer at excisional biopsy, lesions in women with ipsilateral cancer within 2 years of mammography, and lesions that presented as a mass only.

Diffuse uterine leiomyomatosis in a child.

Leiomyomas are the most common benign uterine tumor; however, this entity is relatively uncommon in the pediatric population. Although leiomyomas most commonly present as solitary uterine masses, unusual patterns of growth have been described including diffuse leiomyomatosis. In this condition, the myometrium of the uterus is symmetrically expanded by innumerable confluent leiomyomas; this pattern of growth is quite uncommon and has never been reported in a pediatric patient.