Application of sonographic BI-RADS to synchronous breast nodules detected in patients with breast cancer

AJR. American Journal of Roentgenology
Suk Jung KimEun Yoon Cho

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the applicability of the current BI-RADS for sonography to the assessment of synchronous breast nodules other than the primary malignant tumor in patients with breast cancer. One hundred eighty-nine synchronous nodules in 147 breast cancer patients were surgically excised after localization, and 412 synchronous nodules in 191 patients were observed or biopsied or excised without localization. Among a total of 601 synchronous nodules, 372 nodules were ipsilateral and 229 were contralateral to a primary malignant tumor. Two radiologists retrospectively reviewed sonograms of these nodules and determined the sonographic BI-RADS category without clinical information or pathologic results. For each nodule, the preoperative BI-RADS category and pathologic or follow-up results were compared. Four hundred eighty-two nodules were classified category 3; 112 nodules, category 4; and seven nodules, category 5. Fifty-five (11.4%) of the category 3 nodules and 57 (47.9%) of the category 4 and 5 nodules were confirmed malignant. Thirty-six (21.2%) of 170 category 3 synchronous nodules in the same quadrant as the primary tumor were confirmed malignant, as were 12 (9.8%) of 122 nodules in a different qua...Continue Reading

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