[Breast parenchymal patterns and carcinoma risks (author's transl)].
Wolfe has suggested that there is a correlation between the pattern of the breast parenchyma and the risk of a carcinoma. This has been confirmed by some authors and denied by others. Our investigations of 905 cases could not confirm Wolfe's thesis and suggested his results were due to selection of cases. Our findings confirm the opinion expressed several times in the literature that the women with a breast parenchymal pattern P2 and DY regarded by Wolfe as high risk patients are not distinguished by an increased risk, but by the fact that existing carcinomas tend to be missed by radiologists.
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D012306:Risk
Mammaparenchymmuster nach Wolfe und Karzinomrisiko.