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. 2000 Nov 2;3(1):55–60. doi: 10.1186/bcr271

Table 4.

Analysis of false-negative diagnosis of mammography (n = 30), sonography (n = 20) and MR mammography (n = 10) for 185 invasive cancers

Cancer MR
characteristics Mammography Sonography mammography
Tumour stage
 1a 1 4 3
 1b 8 5 2
 1c 11 6 3
 2 6 2 2
 3 1 1 0
 4 (inflammatory) 3 2 0
Histological type
 Ductal 15 13 2
 Lobular 11 3 4
 Others 4 4 4
Grading
 1 2 3 1
 2 10 6 5
 3 18 11 4