Breast magnetic resonance imaging as a problem-solving modality in mammographic BI-RADS 3 lesions

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Breast magnetic resonance imaging as a problem-solving modality in mammographic BI-RADS 3 lesions - Cancer Imaging Breast magnetic resonance imaging as a problem-solving modality in mammographic BI-RADS 3 lesions - The probability of a mammographic Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) 3 lesion being cancer is considered to be less than 2%. Therefore, the work-up of a mammographic BI-RADS 3 lesion should be biopsy or follow-up mammography after 6 months. However, most patients referred for biopsy have benign disease. Although the negative predictive value (NPV) of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is highest of all imaging techniques, it is not yet common practice to use breast MRI as a problem-solving modality to exclude patients for further diagnostic work-up.

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