Implementing Abbreviated MRI Screening Into a Breast Imaging Practice
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Ramya Pham; Leah Sieck; Donna Plecha; Holly Marshall
- Source
- AJR. American journal of roentgenology. 213(1)
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Breast imaging
General Medicine
Mri screening
medicine.disease
Occult
030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Increased risk
Breast cancer
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
medicine
Mammography
Breast MRI
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Radiology
skin and connective tissue diseases
business
Cause of death
- Language
- ISSN
- 1546-3141
OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this article is to describe steps for implementing abbreviated breast MRI into a breast imaging practice. CONCLUSION. Mammographic screening for breast cancer has been the standard of care. However, breast cancer remains a leading cause of death of women. Studies have shown that MRI performed with an abbreviated protocol for women at average and slightly increased risk depicts mammographically occult biologically significant cancers at early stages.