Wafaa Raafat Abdel Hamid1, Lobna Rashed Ezz
El Arab, Mona Ahmed Mohamed2, Yasser Abdel Azim Abbas
1Radiodiagnosis, Ain Shams University,
Cairo, Egypt; 2Johns Hopkins University school of medicine
Classic
magnetic resonance imaging is based on the enhancement pattern of lesions in
dynamic breast MRI and morphologic changes. However, there is an overlap of
these criteria with benign lesions. Accordingly, problematic cases have
always been subjected to biopsies and histopathological verification. In our
work we are shedding light on the added value of Diffusion Weighted Imaging
and ADC values in differentiating between benign and malignant breast
lesions, with a major goal of sparing patients the invasiveness and complications of unneeded biopsies.