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. 2020 Sep 29;20:934. doi: 10.1186/s12885-020-07443-7

Table 2.

Changes in the surgical scale and reasons for the changes in the surgical plans of patients with ductal carcinoma in situ and invasive ductal carcinoma

Ductal carcinoma in situ
(n = 199)
Invasive ductal carcinoma
(n = 914)
P value
Increased surgical scale (n, %) 28 (14.0) 81 (8.9) 0.002
Decreased surgical scale (n, %) 4 (2.0) 7 (0.8) 0.035
Total number of cases with surgical plan changes (n, %) 38 (19.1) 92 (10.1) < 0.001
Changes in surgical plans based on MRI findings (n, %) 32 (16.1) 88 (9.6) < 0.001
Reasons (n, %)
 Increased extent of suspicious lesions on breast MRI 18 (9.0) 65 (7.1)
 Additional lesions on breast MRI 7 (3.5) 13 (1.4)
 Multifocality or multicentricity on breast MRI 3 (1.5) 3 (0.3)
 Suspicious lesions on mammography or ultrasonography but benign lesions on breast MRI 4 (2.0) 7 (0.8)
 Changes in surgical plans due to patient’s desire 6 (3.0) 4 (0.4)
Positive margin status in the initial frozen biopsy (Groups 1–3) 13 (6.5) 59 (6.5) 0.470
Positive results in nipple frozen method (Group 4) 7 (3.5) 15 (1.6) 0.1301

MRI Magnetic resonance imaging