Extra-Mammary Findings Detected on Breast Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Pictorial Essay

Recently, breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been accepted as an important tool for the characterization of breast lesions (1), and its clinical use has become more widespread such as for the screening in high risk groups and in women with augmentation or cosmetic injection, local staging in patients with newly diagnosed breast cancer, evaluation of positive surgical margin at initial excision and for the response monitoring to neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Notwithstanding a relatively small field of view (FOV) and primarily focusing on the mammary glands and axillary regions, a part of other structures such as the lung, mediastinum, upper abdomen and bony thorax are Extra-Mammary Findings Detected on Breast Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Pictorial Essay Hee Jung Suh, MD, Ji Soo Choi, MD, PhD, Kyungran Ko, MD, PhD Cancer Prevention & Detection Center and Department of Radiology, National Cancer Center, Goyang 410-769, Korea