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Objective To study the relationship between the mammographic features and clinicopathologic characteristics in breast cancer.Methods Digital mammograms of 176 patients with pathologically proved breast cancer were reviewed.X-ray findings were analysed compared with clinical and pathologic data(histological types and axillary nodes status).Results The breast cancer simplely with micro-calcifications was common seen is the young women under 50 years old(27/32,84.4%) and microcalcifications with the mass was common seen in the aged women over 50 years old(53.8%,28/52).Microcalcifications in mammography occurred frequently occurred in 51.9%(14/27)in intra-ductal carcinoma and early invasive carcinoma.The breast cancer with expression of microcalcification cimbined with burr-like mass had a high metastatic rate to axillary lymph nodes(69.4%,25/36).A high metastatic rate of axillary lymph nodes could also be found in the patients with solitary worm-like microcalcification,solitary burr-like tumor and simple non-wormlike microcalcification.Conclusion The X-ray features of breast carcinoma are certainly related to the clinicopathological manifestations.
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Objective To explore the value of galactography in the diagnosis of breast diseases with nipple discharge. Methods X-ray features, clinical manifestations and pathological results in 70 patiens with nipple discharge proved by clinic and pathology were analyzed retrospectively. Results There were intraductal papilloma in 45 cases, ductal carcinoma in 5 cases, ductal dilatation in 17 cases, breast duct hyperplasia accompanied chronic mastitis in 3 cases .Conclusion Galactography plays important role in diagnosis and differentiation of the breast duct tumor and chronic mastitis diseases, and provides significant information for clinic.