Digital Mammography Increases Breast Cancer Detection (IMAGE)

Radiological Society of North America

Digital Mammography Increases Breast Cancer Detection

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Routine screening mammograms from a 73-year-old woman show (a) 25-mm new casting calcifications representing ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) (arrow) in medial right breast. (b) Patient was treated with surgical excision guided by bracketed wires. Histologic examination showed high-nuclear-grade DCIS.

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Radiological Society of North America

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