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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2017 Jun;208(6):1392–1399. doi: 10.2214/AJR.16.16730

TABLE 3.

Breast MRI Lesion Descriptors, by BI-RADS Category 4 Subdivision

Descriptor 4A (n = 40) 4B (n = 29) 4C (n = 6) 4 (NOS) (n = 7)

Focus 1 (3) 0 (0) 0 (0) 1 (14)
Mass 16 (40) 15 (52) 4 (67) 2 (29)
Nonmass enhancement 23 (58) 14 (48) 2 (33) 4 (57)
Mean size (mm), range 11 (4–37) 15 (5–50) 19 (1–28) 10 (4–22)

Note—Except where otherwise indicated, data are number (%) of lesions. NOS = not otherwise specified.