title: [New developments in breast imaging].
abstract: In 2004, breast cancer screening will be effective in France. This evolution has a strong impact on our mammographic practice that becomes a real mission of public health. Digital mammography, compared to screen-film mammography, provides the same results for the detection of breast cancer, computer-aided detection systems represent the most relevant application of this technology at this time. The setting up of a quality control will allow the introduction of this technology in screening during 2004. Percutaneous imaging-guided procedures are now currently used for the diagnosis of nonpalpable breast lesions and allow the selection of patients for surgery. These procedures have emphasized the need for a multidisciplinary approach of the patients. Indications of MRI have not changed because of its moderated specificity and no relevant development of interventional-guided procedures. Work on standardization of radiological reports and assessment categories goes on. This classification is already applied for mammography, and new classifications for lesions detected by ultrasound or MRI will be published by the American College of Radiology (Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System, 4th edition, available in 2003).
authors.affiliation: Service de radiologie, institut Curie, 26, rue d'Ulm, 75248 Paris, France. anne.tardivon@curie.net
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tardivon
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: el Khoury
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Thibault
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Meunier
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy; D001940:Breast / Q000473:pathology; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008197:Lymph Node Excision; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D008327:Mammography / Q000379:methods; D008403:Mass Screening; D008408:Mastectomy; D008875:Middle Aged; D018579:Patient Selection; D015641:Radiography, Interventional; D015642:Radiology, Interventional; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D016217:Ultrasonography, Mammary