Breast microcalcifications as type descriptors to stratify risk of malignancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 10665 cases with special focus on round/punctate …

M Rominger, C Wisgickl… - RöFo-Fortschritte auf …, 2012 - thieme-connect.com
Purpose: To use a systematic review and meta-analysis to determine the predictive value of
five suspicious type descriptors of microcalcifications, with special focus on round/punctate …

Evaluation of malignancy risk stratification of microcalcifications detected on mammography: a study based on the 5th edition of BI-RADS

SY Kim, HY Kim, EK Kim, MJ Kim, HJ Moon… - Annals of surgical …, 2015 - Springer
Background The 5th edition of Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System subdivides
suspicious calcifications into two categories: 4B—amorphous, coarse heterogeneous, and …

Breast microcalcifications: the UK RCR 5-point breast imaging system or BI-RADS; which is the better predictor of malignancy?

L Metaxa, NA Healy, SA O'Keeffe - The British Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Objective: In the UK RCR 5-point breast imaging system (UKS), radiologists grade
mammograms from 1 to 5 according to suspicion for malignancy, however unlike BI-RADS …

[HTML][HTML] Independent predictors of breast malignancy in screen-detected microcalcifications: biopsy results in 2545 cases

G Farshid, T Sullivan, P Downey, PG Gill… - British journal of …, 2011 - nature.com
Background: Mammographic microcalcifications are associated with many benign lesions,
ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) and invasive cancer. Careful assessment criteria are …

Usefulness and limitations of the Japan Mammography Guidelines for the categorization of microcalcifications

T Uematsu, M Kasami, S Yuen - Breast Cancer, 2008 - Springer
Abstract Background The Japan Mammography Guidelines, referred to the American
College of Radiology Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS), are intended …

Evaluation of breast microcalcifications according to Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System criteria and Le Gal's classification

M Gülsün, FB Demirkazık, M Arıyürek - European journal of radiology, 2003 - Elsevier
Introduction/objective: Our aim was to evaluate the positive predictive value (PPV) of the
analysis of breast microcalcifications according to Breast Imaging Reporting and Data …

Concordance of mammographic classifications of microcalcifications in breast cancer diagnosis: utility of the Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System

ZS Coşar, M Çetin, TK Tepe, R Çetin, AC Zarali - Clinical imaging, 2005 - Elsevier
The purpose of this study is to evaluate breast microcalcifications according to morphology,
distribution, level of suspicion, Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS; fourth …

Microcalcifications of the breast: how does radiologic classification correlate with histology?

M Müller-Schimpfle, A Wersebe, T Xydeas… - Acta …, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose: To assess the correlation between the pre-biopsy classification of
microcalcifications and the underlying histology. Material and Methods: Using the …

BI-RADS descriptors for mammographically detected microcalcifications verified by histopathology after needle-localized open breast biopsy

HJ Shin, HH Kim, M Ko, HJ Kim… - American Journal of …, 2010 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. The objective of our study was to retrospectively determine the positive
predictive value of each descriptor and of combined descriptors for microcalcifications to …

Use of Microcalcification Descriptors in BI-RADS 4th Edition to Stratify Risk of Malignancy1

ES Burnside, JE Ochsner, KJ Fowler, JP Fine… - Radiology, 2007 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose: To retrospectively evaluate whether microcalcification descriptors and the
categorization of microcalcification descriptors in the Breast Imaging Reporting and Data …