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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2019 Apr 13;176(1):101–108. doi: 10.1007/s10549-019-05224-w

Table 3b.

Positive Predictive Value of Suspicious Ultrasound vs. Clinical Suspicion Alone as the Driver of Invasive Interventions (Excision/Biopsy)

Pathologic
Concordance
(PPV)
Pathologic
Discordance
p-value
Ultrasound Suspicion 17 (16.2%) 88 (83.8%) 0.25
Clinical Suspicion Alone 37 (21.9%) 132 (78.1%)