title: [Radiological aspects of breast carcinoma].
abstract: X-ray patterns of breast carcinoma reflect tissue alterations and stromal reactions. These two factors are diversely represented within every tumor and, consequently, three types of picture can be observed: 75 per cent of them are complete, complex, cockarde-shaped; 20 per cent are incomplete, sketchy, hence ambiguous; the remaining 5 per cent show a totally benignant decidedly misleading image. In these difficult cases, erroneous clinical as well as radiological diagnosis is unavoidable (a non reductible rate of about 1 per cent), whenever clinical signs are unable to palliate the unreliable X-ray picture.
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authors.lastname: Willemin
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002285:Carcinoma, Intraductal, Noninfiltrating / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D004487:Edema / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D005348:Fibrocystic Breast Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005355:Fibrosis; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography; D011856:Radiographic Image Enhancement