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Abstract
Breast cancer is the most common malignant tumor among women. The purpose of all diagnostic modalities in breast cancer is early detection and proper diagnosis, which has major impact on further management and prognosis.
Mammography and breast ultrasound are still considered the first routine examination tools in diagnosis of breast disease worldwide. However the overlap in the mammographic and ultrasongraphic appearance of benign and malignant lesions as well as edematous and dense breast tissue especially in young patients necessitates the presence of problem solving complementary studies.
Recently, with advances in ultrafast MRI techniques, new functional sequences such as diffusion-weighted imaging offer potential improve in accuracy of breast MRI.
DWI has the advantage of being a short unenhanced scan that can be inserted easily into the standard clinical breast MRI protocols as a potential adjunct that can be added routinely to conventional breast MRI. ADC values can accurately differentiate benign from malignant breast lesions with high sensitivity and specificity.
The purpose of this study was to assess the role of DWI and ADC value in characterization of suspicious breast lesions detected in conventional imaging, and if additional information provided by DWI improves the diagnostic value of breast MRI.