Assessing the malignancy of suspicious breast microcalcifications: the role of contrast enhanced mammography.
Catherine DeprettoElisa D'AscoliGianmarco Della PepaGiovanni IrmiciClaudia De BerardinisDaniela BalleriniAlice BonanomiEleonora AnconaClaudio FerrantiGianfranco Paride ScaperrottaPublished in: La Radiologia medica (2024)
The absence of enhancement can be used as an indicative parameter for the absence of disease in cases of low-suspicious microcalcifications, but not in intermediate-high suspicious ones for which biopsy remains mandatory and can be used to distinguish indolent lesions from more aggressive neoplasms, with consequent reduction of overdiagnosis and overtreatment.