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Canada

• Alberta Health Services
  • Magnetic resonance imaging for breast cancer screening, pre-operative assessment, and follow-up [2012]

• Canadian Association of Radiologists
  • CAR Standard for the Performance of Breast Ultrasound Examination [2003]

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • Magnetic resonance imaging for breast cancer screening, pre-operative assessment, and follow-up. Alberta Health Services, Cancer Care [2012]

Europe

• European Society of Breast Cancer Specialists
  • Magnetic resonance imaging of the breast: Recommendations from the EUSOMA working group [2010]

• European Society of Breast Imaging
  • Breast MRI: guidelines from the European Society of Breast Imaging [2008]

New Zealand

• Cancer Society of New Zealand
  • Position statement. The use of thermography as a breast cancer screening or diagnostic tool [2010]

United Kingdom

• Health Technology Assessment
  • Positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for the assessment of axillary lymph node metastases in early breast cancer: systematic review and economic evaluation [2011]
  • An economic evaluation of positron emission tomography (PET) and positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) for the diagnosis of breast cancer recurrence [2011]
  • A systematic review of positron emission tomography (PET) and positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) for the diagnosis of breast cancer recurrence [2010]
  • Multicentre randomised controlled trial examining the cost-effectiveness of contrast-enhanced high field magnetic resonance imaging in women with primary breast cancer scheduled for wide local excision (COMICE) [2009]
  • Overview of the clinical effectiveness of positron emission tomography imaging in selected cancers [2007]

United States of America

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Noninvasive Diagnostic Tests for Breast Abnormalities [2006]

• American College of Radiology
  • Palpable Breast Masses [2012]
  • Nonpalpable Mammographic Findings (Excluding Calcifications) [2012]
  • Stage I Breast Carcinoma [2011]
  • ACR Practice Guideline for the Performance of a Breast Ultrasound Examination [2011]
  • Breast Microcalcifications — Initial Diagnostic Workup [2009]
  • ACR Practice Guideline for the Performance of Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of the Breast [2008]

• American Society of Breast Surgeons
  • Position Statement on the Use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Breast Oncology [2010]
  • Performance and Practice Guidelines for Breast Ultrasound [2008]

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® stage I breast carcinoma [2011]
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® nonpalpable mammographic findings (excluding calcifications) [2010]
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® palpable breast masses [2009]
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® breast microcalcifications — initial diagnostic workup [2009]

Articles in journals

• Academic Radiology
  • Evaluating the correlation between mammography and MRI for screening women with increased breast cancer risk [2009]

• American Journal of Roentgenology
  • The Postconservation Breast: Part 2, Imaging Findings of Tumor Recurrence and Other Long-Term Sequelae [2012]
  • The Postconservation Breast: Part 1, Expected Imaging Findings [2012]
  • Papillary Lesions of the Breast: MRI, Ultrasound, and Mammographic Appearances [2012]
  • Imaging Features and Management of High-Risk Lesions on Contrast-Enhanced Dynamic Breast MRI [2012]
  • Indications for Breast MRI: Case-Based Review [2011]
  • Breast MRI Using a High-Relaxivity Contrast Agent: An Overview [2011]
  • Cystic Masses of the Breast [2010]
  • The Many Faces of Fat Necrosis in the Breast [2009]
  • Invasive Micropapillary Carcinoma of the Breast: Mammographic, Sonographic, and MRI Features [2009]

• Australian Family Physician
  • The role of breast MRI in clinical practice [2009]

• BMC Cancer
  • Early detection of breast cancer: benefits and risks of supplemental breast ultrasound in asymptomatic women with mammographically dense breast tissue. A systematic review [2009]

• Breast Cancer Research
  • Functional magnetic resonance: biomarkers of response in breast cancer [2011]

• Cancer Control: Journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center
  • Molecular and Functional Imaging of Breast Cancer [2010]

• Cancer Imaging
  • Opportunities for PET to deliver clinical benefit in cancer: breast cancer as a paradigm [2010]
  • Breast magnetic resonance imaging as a problem-solving modality in mammographic BI-RADS 3 lesions [2010]

• Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
  • The radiologic workup of a palpable breast mass [2009]
  • Role of MRI in breast cancer management [2009]

• Danish Medical Journal
  • Utility of 18FDG-PET/CT in breast cancer diagnostics--a systematic review [2011]

• European Radiology
  • Computer-aided detection in breast MRI: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2011]

• Expert Reviews
  • Molecular breast imaging [2009]

• Future Oncology
  • Update on the potential of computer-aided diagnosis for breast cancer [2010]

• Israel Medical Association Journal
  • Possibilities for Improved Early Breast Cancer Detection by Pade-Optimized Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy [2011]
  • Current Dilemmas and Future Perspectives for Breast Cancer Screening with a Focus upon Optimization of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging by Advances in Signal Processing [2004]

• Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology
  • FDG-PET and other imaging modalities for the evaluation of breast cancer recurrence and metastases: a meta-analysis [2010]

• Journal of General Internal Medicine
  • Obesity and Mammography: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2009]

• Journal of Nuclear Medicine
  • The Role of Radiotracer Imaging in the Diagnosis and Management of Patients with Breast Cancer: Part 1--Overview, Detection, and Staging [2009]

• Journal of the American Board of Family Practice
  • Current Role of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Breast Imaging: A Primer for the Primary Care Physician [2005]

• Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences
  • Appropriate Timing of Proton MR Spectroscopy in Breast Cancer [2011]

• RadioGraphics
  • How to Find an Isoechoic Lesion with Breast US [2011]
  • Breast Masses in Children and Adolescents: Radiologic-Pathologic Correlation [2009]
  • Recognizing and Interpreting Artifacts and Pitfalls in MR Imaging of the Breast [2007]
  • MR Ductography: Comparison with Conventional Ductography as a Diagnostic Method in Patients with Nipple Discharge [2007]
  • Complex Cystic Breast Masses: Diagnostic Approach and Imaging-Pathologic Correlation [2007]
  • Common and Unusual Diseases of the Nipple-Areolar Complex [2007]
  • Breast Lesions Incidentally Detected with CT: What the General Radiologist Needs to Know [2007]
  • Patterns of Enhancement on Breast MR Images: Interpretation and Imaging Pitfalls [2006]
  • How to Optimize Clinical Breast MR Imaging Practices and Techniques on Your 1.5-T System [2006]
  • Radiologic Evaluation of Uncommon Inflammatory and Reactive Breast Disorders [2005]

• Radiologic Clinics of North America
  • Cystic Breast Masses and the ACRIN 6666 Experience [2010]

• Radiology
  • The Current Status of Breast MR Imaging. Part I. Choice of Technique, Image Interpretation, Diagnostic Accuracy, and Transfer to Clinical Practice [2007]

• Singapore Medical Journal
  • Imaging of giant breast masses with pathological correlation [2004]

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