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Breast mri; new bilateral foci of nonmass nodular enhancement. focal 5mm nodular enhancement in upper out quadrant of right breast, and 0.8mm at 12:00 of left breast. i am scared this is cancer. post-menopausal and high risk. what area odds in both?

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Dr. Hiep Le
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Nephrology and Dialysis 44 years experience
By Radiopaedia: in general, a substantial minority of non-mass enhancement proves to be malignant 3-5. Second-look breast ultrasound is prudent to look for a correlate that can be targeted for ultrasound-guided rather than MRI-guided breast biopsy.
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Reviewed Dec 08, 2022
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Sorry, I copied and pasted from Radiopaedia but forgot to erase 3-5 (the reference articles) so you just ignore those numbers.
Dec 8, 2022

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