title: Technologic advances in breast imaging. Current and future strategies, controversies, and opportunities.
abstract: This article summarizes current strategies for breast imaging in the diagnosis of breast cancer. It describes how technologic advances, particularly image-guided percutaneous core biopsies, are rapidly changing these strategies. Sonography now plays a major role in the diagnosis of breast cancer. The future roles for MR imaging and scintimammography are also discussed.
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: F M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Hall
mesh_terms: D001706:Biopsy; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008327:Mammography; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D017256:Technetium Tc 99m Sestamibi; D014463:Ultrasonography
chemical_list: D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D017256:Technetium Tc 99m Sestamibi