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Potential Cost Savings of Contrast-Enhanced Digital Mammography
Bhavika K Patel1, Richard J Gray2, Barbara A Pockaj2
11 Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic Hospital, 5777 E Mayo Blvd, Phoenix, AZ 85054.
AJR. American Journal of Roentgenology
|April 6, 2017
Abstract
Objective:
The purpose of this article is to discuss whether the sensitivity and specificity of contrast-enhanced digital mammography (CEDM) render it a viable diagnostic alternative to breast MRI.
Conclusion:
That CEDM couples low-energy images (comparable to the diagnostic quality of standard mammography) and subtracted contrast-enhanced mammograms make it a cost-effective modality and a realistic substitute for the more costly breast MRI.