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Table 2 Clinical, Radiologic, and Pathologic Data of those Radial Scars/Complex Sclerosing Lesions Upgraded after Excision

From: Radial scars/complex sclerosing lesions of the breast: radiologic and clinicopathologic correlation

Case

Initial pathology on core biopsy

Size (mm)

Mammography

Ultrasound

MRI

Final pathology after surgical excision

1

Radial scar

5

Occult

Oval hypoechoic mass, parallel, indistinct

N/A

Radial scar with atypical ductal hyperplasia

2.

Radial scar

8

Irregular, indistinct, hyperdense mass

Irregular, non-parallel, angular, hypoechoic mass, with posterior enhancement

N/A

Radial scar with atypical papilloma

3.

Complex sclerosing lesion

19

Occult

Oval, parallel, circumscribed, hypoechoic mass

Non-mass lesion with regional, homogeneous enhancement and Type 3 kinetic curve

DCIS

4.

Radial scar

10

Occult

Irregular, non-parallel, indistinct, hypoechoic mass,

N/A

DCIS

  1. DCIS ductal carcinoma in situ, MRI magnetic resonance imaging