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01.11.2013 | Poster presentation
PB.48: Old habits die hard: breast imaging of symptomatic 35 to 39 year olds
verfasst von:
FM Singh, S Gadde
Erschienen in:
Breast Cancer Research
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Sonderheft 1/2013
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Excerpt
The Best Practice Diagnostic Guidelines for Patients Presenting with Breast Symptoms were published in 2010 and suggest patients younger than 40 years should undergo breast ultrasound (US) as first-line imaging, with additional mammography for indeterminate and suspicious clinical or US findings. However, our current departmental guidelines are to use first-line mammography in patients aged 35 and over. The aims were to quantify the use of imaging modalities and cancer detection; to assess whether additional information gained by mammography changed management; and to quantify how many fewer mammograms would have been performed if we had adhered to the 2010 Guidelines. …