title: Diabetic fibrous mastopathy: dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging findings.
abstract: Diabetic fibrous mastopathy (DFM) is an uncommon lesion that may clinically mimic breast carcinoma. Routine mammographic and ultrasonographic features of this disease also mimic the those of malignant disease, making an accurate preoperative diagnosis difficult. Dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), however, reveals a homogeneous low-enhancement with a gradual and progressive course without a washout. A corresponding time intensity curve is related to benign lesions of low vascularity, and by being a potential criterion for making a differentiation between DFM and malignant processes, spares patients from excisional biopsy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Trakya University School of Medicine, Edirne, Turkey. drtuncbilek@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Nermin
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tuncbilek
authors.forename: Hakki Muammer
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Karakas
authors.forename: Omur
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Okten
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000150:complications*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005348:Fibrocystic Breast Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D008875:Middle Aged