U. Fischer et al., SIGNAL TIME-RELATION OF BENIGN AND MALIGNANT LESIONS IN DYNAMIC 2D-MRIMAGING OF THE BREAST, RoFo. Fortschritte auf dem Gebiete der Rontgenstrahlen und der neuenbildgebenden Verfahren, 158(4), 1993, pp. 287-292
In a retrospective study of 400 dynamic MR examinations of the breast
the signal/time ratio of 62 histopathologically correlated lesions (19
benign, 42 malignant) was evaluated. Points of evaluation were initia
l signal enhancement (1st and 2nd minute), post-initial signal appeara
nce (2nd to 5th minute) and signal distribution (homogeneous, marginal
). Based on these criteria, a point system was defined to help in the
assessment of lesions in dynamic breast-MR imaging. The overall sensit
ivity of this method was 95.3%, the specificity to 89.5% and the accur
acy to 93.5%. Pitfalls resulted in two cases of non-invasive carcinoma
and in two patients with fibroadenoma.