作者: A T Stavros , D Thickman , C L Rapp , M A Dennis , S H Parker
DOI: 10.1148/RADIOLOGY.196.1.7784555
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摘要: PURPOSE: To determine whether sonography could help accurately distinguish benign solid breast nodules from indeterminate or malignant and this distinction be definite enough to obviate biopsy. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Seven hundred fifty sonographically were prospectively classified as benign, indeterminate, malignant. Benign had no characteristics either intense homogeneous hyperechogenicity a thin echogenic pseudocapsule with an ellipsoid shape fewer than four gentle lobulations. Sonographic classifications compared biopsy results. The sensitivity, specificity, negative positive predictive values of the calculated. RESULTS: histologic features found in 625 (83%) lesions; features, 125 (17%). Of lesions, 424 been benign. Two lesions at Thus, classification s...