title: Benign breast disease.
abstract: When faced with a suspicious clinical or mammographic finding, patients may be anxious about the possibility of breast cancer. Because many of these findings are benign, clinicians attempt to make a rapid and accurate diagnosis to definitively rule out carcinoma. Imaging plays a key role in diagnostic strategies. This article addresses some of the more common benign breast diseases and their differential diagnosis from malignant breast disease.
authors.forename: T G
authors.initials: TG
authors.lastname: Norris
mesh_terms: D001706:Biopsy; D001941:Breast Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008327:Mammography; D014463:Ultrasonography