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 |