title: Screen-detected breast carcinoma with macroscopic dystrophic calcification: A pictorial essay with radiolological pathological correlation.
abstract: Breast calcifications are among the most common abnormal radiographic findings detected at screening mammography. This essay illustrates the clinico-pathological features of nine screen-detected breast carcinomas, which had benign-appearing macrocalcifications, as a radiographically dominant presenting feature. We aimed to demonstrate that benign-appearing calcifications within a breast lesion are not diagnostic of a benign process if the other imaging characteristics of the lesion are suspicious of malignancy.
authors.affiliation: Radiology, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.|Radiology, Salmaniya Medical Complex, Manama, Bahrain.
authors.forename: Lamya
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ebrahim
authors.affiliation: Radiology, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
authors.forename: Deepthi
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dissanayake
authors.affiliation: PathWest, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
authors.forename: Cecily
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Metcalf
authors.affiliation: Radiology, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.|School of Surgery, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia.
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Wylie
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015984:Causality; D015897:Comorbidity; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D055088:Early Detection of Cancer / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D014904:Western Australia / Q000453:epidemiology
keywords: breast screening; calcification; malignancy; mammography