Self-compression Technique vs Standard Compression in Mammography: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Importance: Many women dread undergoing mammography, and some may not attend or reattend breast cancer screening because of the discomfort or pain induced by breast compression.

Objective: To evaluate the noninferiority of the self-compression mammography technique for reducing breast thickness compared with standard compression.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This prospective, parallel-group, noninferiority randomized clinical trial was conducted from May 7, 2013, to October 26, 2015, at 6 cancer care centers in France.

Are the criteria of Tabar and Dean still relevant to radial scar?

Objective: Aschoff's center of proliferation (ACP), poses significant problems of differential diagnosis both in imagery and histology with infiltrating carcinoma. Up to now the criteria of Tabar and Dean (classical criteria) are considered as diagnostically relevant.

Material: A retrospective study of 113 cases, enabled us to study their clinical, radiological and histological aspects.

High grade primary breast lymphoma: is it a different clinical entity?

Primary lymphoma of the breast (PBL) is a rare neoplasm, its outcome remains unclear compared to other lymphomas. We performed a retrospective study of 19 cases of high grade PBL. There were 17 Diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and 2 follicular and diffuse grade 3 lymphomas.

Magnetic resonance imaging contrast-enhanced relaxometry of breast tumors: an MRI multicenter investigation concerning 100 patients.

Dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) using extracellular contrast agents has proved to be useful for the characterization of breast tumors. DCE-MRI has demonstrated a high sensitivity (around 95%) but a rather poor and controversial specificity, varying, according to the different studies, from 45% to 90%. In order to increase (a) the specificity and (b) the robustness of this quantitative approach in multicenter evaluation (five MRI units), a quantitative approach called dynamic relaxometry has been developed.

[Diabetic mastopathy].

This report concerns a case of diabetic mastopathy, a benign but pseudotumoral clinicopathologic entity which occurs in young women with type 1 diabetes. Positive diagnosis, differential diagnosis and literature data are discussed.