Please see the Editorial Comment by Linda M. Sanders discussing this article. Please see
the Author Video associated with this article. BACKGROUND. There is a paucity of data and …

Editorial Comment: MRI Is Useful in a High-Risk Patient Cohort Before Prophylactic
Mastectomy, Obviating Sentinel Node Sampling Page 1 Taliaferro et al. 248 AJR:218 …

Background Preoperative use of breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in women with
breast cancer may increase rates of mastectomy. This study investigated relationships …

Background Several recent studies have described increasing rates of unilateral and
bilateral mastectomy among women with newly diagnosed breast cancer. The use of breast …

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) use in the preoperative evaluation of newly diagnosed
breast cancer (BC) patients is rising. We evaluated MRI as a function of surgical year with …

Keywords• breast cancer• breast MRI• mastectomy rate part of 2 future science group www.
futuremedicine. com time. McGuire et al. published a single institution series in 2009 which …

BACKGROUND Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) in the setting of prophylactic
mastectomy (PM) remains controversial. In the current study, recent experience with PM was …

Background High-risk patients undergoing prophylactic mastectomy (PM) may have
unsuspected cancers identified on pathology. The optimum way to identify and manage …

In a recent study using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database,
Tuttle et al. reported that the use of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM) among …

Increase of mastectomy rates after preoperative MRI in women... : International Journal of
Surgery Increase of mastectomy rates after preoperative MRI in women with breast cancer is not …