Multifocal breast cancer
Last revised by Henry Knipe on 17 Sep 2018
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Radswiki T, Knipe H, Tatco V, Multifocal breast cancer. Reference article, Radiopaedia.org (Accessed on 09 Dec 2023) https://doi.org/10.53347/rID-15076
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21 Sep 2011, The Radswiki ◉
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- Multifocal breast cancers
- Multifocal breast carcinoma
- Multi-focal breast cancer
Multifocal breast cancer refers to two or more individual breast cancers diagnosed at the same time within the same quadrant of the same breast 1.
References
- 1. Cardeñosa G. Clinical breast imaging, a patient focused teaching file. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. (2006) ISBN:0781762677. Read it at Google Books - Find it at Amazon
- 2. Berg WA, Gilbreath PL. Multicentric and multifocal cancer: whole-breast US in preoperative evaluation. Radiology. 2000;214 (1): 59-66. Radiology (full text) - Pubmed citation
- 3. Sardanelli F, Giuseppetti GM, Panizza P et-al. Sensitivity of MRI versus mammography for detecting foci of multifocal, multicentric breast cancer in Fatty and dense breasts using the whole-breast pathologic examination as a gold standard. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2004;183 (4): 1149-57. AJR Am J Roentgenol (full text) - Pubmed citation
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