ArticleJournal of medical radiation sciences2025
Impact of Digital Breast Tomosynthesis on Extra Views and Concomitant Ultrasound Examinations in One Year Post Breast-Conserving Surgery Patients.
Article in Journal of medical radiation sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
introductionImaging surveillance of patients post breast surgery for breast cancer is routinely performed with mammography. In practice, a large number of patients receive a concomitant ultrasound. The latter has not been established as routine practice and varies across imaging departments and referrers. This study aims to determine if the use of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) has decreased the need for concomitant ultrasound and extra mammographic views compared to digital mammography (DM).
methodsData was retrospectively reviewed for patients undergoing surveillance mammography for two periods: 2015-2016 (DM) and 2018-2019 (DBT). Patients identified as first-year post breast-conserving surgery (BCS) were included in the study. Comparison of proportions of concomitant ultrasound use between the two periods, with subgroup analysis for breast density categories, was performed using Chi-squared tests.
resultsThe study included 499 patients, of which 245 and 254 represented the DM and DBT periods, respectively, with a mean age of 60.1 years (SD 13.1) for the entire cohort. During DBT period, the percentage of patients having concomitant ultrasounds decreased by 15 percentage points (95% CI 8.9%-21.1%) (p < 0.0001) when compared to the DM period. During DBT period, the percentage of patients having extra views decreased by 44 percentage points (95% CI 36.1%-51.1%) (p < 0.0001).
conclusionThe introduction of DBT resulted in fewer concomitant ultrasound examinations and extra mammographic views performed in the first-year post breast cancer treatment. The role of ultrasound in cancer surveillance post-treatment is debatable and large prospective studies investigating its value are warranted.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.