title: [Preoperative MR-mammography in diagnosed breast carcinoma. Useful information or useless extravagance?].
abstract: In a retrospective study the value of MR mammography in cases of radiological well-known carcinoma of the breast was evaluated preoperatively in 76 cases of histopathologically verified carcinoma one lesion was missed by MR imaging. Compared to the results of conventional X-ray mammography additional malignant lesions were detected in 5 patients ipsilaterally and in another 8 patients contralaterally by MR mammography only. In additional 4 cases MR mammography demonstrated suspicious lesions contralaterally, but histopathology revealed benign lesions. The therapeutic procedure was changed in 15 cases (18.5%) due to the findings of MR imaging: Ipsilateral mastectomy instead of tumorectomy (n = 5) or primary chemotherapy instead of operation (n = 1); contralateral additional tumorectomy (n = 3) or mastectomy (n = 2) by carcinoma and open biopsy (n = 4) by benign finding.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung Röntgendiagnostik I, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Fischer
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Vosshenrich
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Probst
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Burchhardt
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Grabbe
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008327:Mammography; D008408:Mastectomy; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies
vernacular_title: Präoperative MR-Mammographie bei bekanntem Mammakarzinom. Sinnvolle Mehrinformation oder sinnloser Mehraufwand?