Open AccessCan unenhanced breast MRI be used to decrease negative biopsy rates?
Author(s) -
Sibel Kul,
Şükrü Oğuz,
İlker Eyüboğlu,
Ozlem Komurcuoglu
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
diagnostic and interventional radiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.754
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1305-3612
pISSN - 1305-3825
DOI - 10.5152/dir.2014.14333
Subject(s) - medicine , biopsy , radiology , magnetic resonance imaging , malignancy , breast cancer , breast mri , effective diffusion coefficient , histopathology , medical diagnosis , breast imaging , breast biopsy , mammography , cancer , pathology
We aimed to determine whether low-risk breast masses can be effectively managed with unenhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) combining T2-weighted sequences with diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) instead of immediate biopsy to decrease negative biopsy rates.
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