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Table 3 Clinical and Imaging Characteristics of the Four Intramammary Breast Cancers Detected on Surveillance Breast MRI

From: Breast magnetic resonance imaging for surveillance of women with a personal history of breast cancer: outcomes stratified by interval between definitive surgery and surveillance MR imaging

Age range, years

Initial surgery intervala

Prior MRI

Side of Lesion

MRI

assessment

Biopsy

Method

Pathology

MRI finding

Mammographic density

Mammography

assessment

35–40

60.0

Yes

Contralateral

BI-RADS 3

US

IDC

Mass

Heterogeneously dense

BI-RADS 1

50–55

56.3

Yes

Contralateral

BI-RADS 4

US

DCIS

Nonmass

Heterogeneously dense

BI-RADS 2

45–50

24.7

Yes

Contralateral

BI-RADS 4

US

Mucinous carcinoma

Nonmass

Heterogeneously dense

BI-RADS 2

35–40

38.7

Yes

Contralateral

BI-RADS 4

MRI

ILC

Nonmass

Heterogeneously dense

BI-RADS 2

  1. IDC invasive ductal carcinoma, DCIS ductal carcinoma in situ, ILC invasive lobular carcinoma
  2. aInterval between initial surgery and screening breast MR examination by which the subsequent cancer was detected (months)