Breast Lesion in CT Chest

Assiut University

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Breast Cancer Female

Treatments: Radiation: MSCT

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06196216

CT chest in breast cancer

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aims of this study are To evaluate the CT features of incidental breast lesions on chest CT and subsequently suggest useful criteria for referral to a specialized breast unit.

Full description

Enhanced chest CT examination reports containing the key word 'breast' well be reviewed retrospectively. Patients who had incidental breast lesion and were referred to a specialized breast unit and then underwent pathological confirmation well be included. Finally, 100 patients well be enrolled. Two radiologists well evaluate lesion characteristics including; size, shape, margins and enhancement. The correlations between the CT features and pathologies well be evaluated and the diagnostic accuracy of CT features in various combinations well be assessed.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 25 to 95 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Inclusion criteria are patients who ex hibited incidental breast lesion(s) on enhanced chest CT and were referred to a specialized breast unit for assessment and then underwent pathological confirmation.

Exclusion criteria

• -Patients with known breast dis ease.
• Previous history of breast cancer or breast surgery.
• Patients who had undergone only non-enhanced CT examination.