Tuesday 10 April 2012

Background parenchymal enhancement on breast MRI

Background parenchymal enhancement on breast MRI: Impact on diagnostic performance. AJR, April, 2012, vol. 198(4), p. W373-W380.

DeMartini, W.B., et al.


Increased background parenchymal enhancement on breast MRI is associated with younger patient age and higher abnormal interpretation rate. However, it is not related to significant differences in positive biopsy rate, cancer yield, sensitivity, or specificity of MRI.