Older Women Benefit Significantly When Screened with 3-D Mammography (IMAGE)

Radiological Society of North America

Older Women Benefit Significantly When Screened with 3-D Mammography

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Images in a 72-year-old woman with screening-detected invasive carcinoma. (a) Tomo¬synthesis image from left craniocaudal view demonstrates architectural distortion in lateral aspect of left breast at anterior depth (arrow). (b) Finding is not as well demonstrated on two-dimensional left craniocaudal view. Patient underwent image-guided core biopsy and subsequent lumpectomy, which revealed grade 2 invasive lobular carcinoma.

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