Detection and localization of occult lesions using breast magnetic resonance imaging: initial experience in a community hospital.

Rationale And Objectives: To evaluate the outcome of diagnostic breast MR imaging followed by MR guided needle localization for mammographically and sonographically occult breast lesions in a community-based hospital.

Materials And Methods: Records of the initial 50 consecutive patients who underwent MR guided needle localizations at our institution from November 2001 to January 2003 were reviewed. Sixty-two lesions were localized by MR and were mammographically and sonographically occult.

Solitary peripheral papilloma of the breast: a radiologic-pathologic correlation of a benign lesion that may mimic breast cancer on mammography.

Objective: The objective of this study was to describe the mammographic appearance with pathologic correlation of solitary peripheral papillomas of the breast.

Conclusion: Solitary peripheral papillomas of the breast are benign lesions that may present mammographic features suggestive of carcinoma. Solitary peripheral papilloma is a variant related to the solitary central duct papilloma but has a different mammographic appearance because of its location and histologic architecture.