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 73-year-old woman with screening-detected invasive carcinoma. (a) Two-dimensional left mediolateral oblique view and (b) tomosynthesis image from left mediolateral oblique view demonstrate mass in superior aspect of left breast at mid¬dle depth (arrows). Mass margins are better characterized with tomosynthesis. Patient underwent lumpectomy, which revealed grade 1 invasive ductal carcinoma.

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