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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Radiol. 2014 Apr 29;11(9):883–889. doi: 10.1016/j.jacr.2014.02.003

Table 2.

Pathologic diagnoses in 249 suspicious breast MRI lesions

Screening Diagnostic Overall
Total Lesions (%) 77 172
Malignant 18 61 79
Invasive ductal carcinoma 11/18 (61%) 27/61 (44%) 38/79 (48%)
Ductal carcinoma in situ 7/18 (39%) 20/61 (33%) 27/79 (34%)
Invasive lobular carcinoma 0/18 (0%) 3/61 (5%) 3/79 (4%)
Other* 0/18 (0%) 11/61 (18%) 11/79 (14%)
Invasive Cancer Size (mm)
Mean (Standard Deviation) 15 mm (13) 15 mm (15) 15 mm (13)
Benign 59 111 170
Fibrocystic changes, stromal fibrosis, or sclerosing adenosis 18/59 (31%) 25/111 (23%) 43/170 (25%)
Fibroadenoma 21/59 (36%) 33/111 (30%) 54/170 (32%)
Pseudoangiomatous stromal hyperplasia 3/59 (5%) 15/111 (14%) 18/170 (11%)
Atypia including lobular neoplasia 3/59 (5%) 8/111 (7%) 11/170 (6%)
Hamartoma 5/59 (8%) 9/111 (8%) 14/170 (8%)
Radial scar 3/59 (5%) 3/111 (3%) 6/170 (4%)
Papilloma 0/59 (0%) 3/111 (3%) 3/170 (2%)
Phyllodes tumor 0/59 (0%) 0/111 (0%) 0/170 (0%)
Post radiation changes 2/59 (3%) 4/111 (4%) 6/170 (4%)
Other 4/59 (7%) 11/111 (11%) 15/170 (9%)
*

Included phyllodes with sarcoma, lymph node with metastatic carcinoma, mixed invasive ductal and lobular carcinoma, and lesions missing data on the specific type of malignant diagnosis

Data only available for 75 lesions

Included other benign pathology results and lesions missing data on the specific type of benign diagnosis