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ArticleRadiologia brasileira

Suspicious amorphous microcalcifications detected on full-field digital mammography: correlation with histopathology.

Vera Christina Camargo de Siqueira Ferreira, Elba Cristina Sá de Camargo Etchebehere, José Luiz Barbosa Bevilacqua, Nestor de Barros

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Vera Christina Camargo de Siqueira FerreiraMD, PhD, Hospital Sírio Libanês and Instituto do Câncer do Estado de São Paulo (Icesp), São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Elba Cristina Sá de Camargo EtchebehereMD, PhD, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (FCM-Unicamp), Campinas, SP, Brazil.
José Luiz Barbosa BevilacquaMD, PhD, Hospital Sírio Libanês, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Nestor de BarrosMD, PhD, Tenured Professor, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (FMUSP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil.

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objectiveTo evaluate suspicious amorphous calcifications diagnosed on full-field digital mammography (FFDM) and establish correlations with histopathology findings. MATERIALS AND

methodsThis was a retrospective study of 78 suspicious amorphous calcifications (all classified as BI-RADS

resultsAmong the 78 amorphous calcifications evaluated, the histopathological analysis indicated that 8 (10.3%) were malignant/suspicious (6 classified as pB5 and 2 classified as pB4) and 36 (46.2%) were benign (classified as pB2). The remaining 34 lesions (43.6%) were classified as pB3: 33.3% were precursor lesions (atypical ductal hyperplasia, lobular neoplasia, or flat epithelial atypia) and 10.3% were high-risk lesions. For the pB3 lesions, the underestimation rate was zero.

conclusionThe diagnosis of precursor lesions (excluding atypical ductal hyperplasia, which can be pB4 depending on the severity and extent of the lesion) should not necessarily be considered indicative of underestimation of malignancy. Suspicious amorphous calcifications correlated more often with precursor lesions than with malignant lesions, at a ratio of 3:1.

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Amorphous morphologyBreast cancerBreast stereotaxis biopsyCalcificationDiagnosisDigital mammography

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