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. 2023 Aug 30;33(11):8080–8088. doi: 10.1007/s00330-023-10072-w

Table 1.

Characteristics of all patients and those diagnosed with either malignant or benign incidental MRI-detected lesions or only malignant incidental MRI-detected lesions

All patients
N = 946
Patients with at least one incidental lesiona
n = 166
Patients with at least one malignant incidental lesion
n = 77
n % n % n %
Age (mean (years), SD, min–max) 59.75, 11.75, 29–87 59.14, 11.85, 31–85 59.14, 12.19, 34–85
Primary tumor histology
  Invasive cancer of no special type 672 71.0 118 71.1 52 67.5
  Lobular 223 23.6 39 23.5 22 28.6
  Other 51 5.4 9 5.4 3 3.9
Intrinsic subtypeb
  Luminal A 322 34.0 67 40.4 36 46.8
  Luminal B 515 54.4 84 50.6 35 45.5
  Basal-like 63 6.7 8 4.8 2 2.6
  HER2-enriched 46 4.9 7 4.2 4 5.2
Breast density
  A 66 7.0 4 2.4 3 3.9
  B 384 40.6 67 40.4 31 40.3
  C 360 38.1 64 38.6 29 37.7
  D 136 14.4 31 18.7 14 18.2

aBI-RADS category 3–5 lesions

bCutoff value of ≥ 1% was used to define positive hormone receptor status (estrogen and progesterone)