Clinical Application of BI-RADS（5th Ed）Mammography Lexicon in the Category of Suspicious Calcification / 中山大学学报(医学科学版)

ABSTRACT

@#Objective】 To explore the clinical application of the fifth edition of BI- RADS for the category of suspicious calcification. 【Methods】 Mammograms of patients with suspicious calcification from May 2012 to May 2017 were reviewed retrospectively. The morphology（amorphous，coarse heterogeneous，fine pleomorphic，fine linear or fine linear branching）and distribution（diffuse，regional，grouped，linear，segmental）of suspected calcification according to the fifth edition of the BI- RADS were analyzed. Taking pathology as the gold standard，the positive predictive value（PPV）of morphology，distribution and combination of morphology and distribution was calculated and compared with the PPV range of the fifth edition of BI- RADS. 【Results】 A total of 170 patients were included in the study，116 were benign，54 were malignant，and PPV was 31.8%（54/170）. In terms of morphology，amorphous，coarse heterogeneous， fine pleomorphic calcification were category 4B（10%