Breast incidentalomas on 18-Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography performed for a non-mammary cause: Significance and outcomes.

Published in: Journal of medical imaging and radiation oncology (2022)

Breast incidentalomas are uncommon on 18-FDG PET-CT but require work-up for malignancy. BIRADS score has a high sensitivity and specificity for malignancy in18-FDG PET-CT incidentalomas but age, size of the lesion and the pattern of uptake on 18-FDG PET-CT were not useful in differentiating benign from malignant incidentalomas.

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