New insights into mammographic correlations in breast pathology

Meticulous correlation of mammographic and pathologic findings is essential to improve detection and understanding of the many processes that affect the breast. A review of recent radiologic papers dealing with several breast cancer variants as well as two benign lesions, the radial scar and the breast hamartoma, is presented. Important papers from the pathologic, oncologic, and radiologic literature are reviewed. These papers described the evolving concepts of proliferative breast disease as risk markers, as well as insights into prognostic differences among the histologic subtypes of ductal carcinoma in situ.