The suspicion that this ill-defined echopoor mass was malignant was supported by very high kPa values (over 200) in its periphery. The histology was a ductal carcinoma.
This echogenic lesion has low kPa values, similar to the surrounding breast tissue. Biopsy revealed fatty tissue and the final diagnosis was a lipoma.
Any lesion that is echopoor and shows shadowing must be considered suspicious and this was graded as BI-RADS 4. The shear wave elastogram showed low values and the biopsy onlyshowedfibrous tissue.

Palpation, amongst the oldest of clinical skills, was used in ancient Egypt and is described in the Ebers’ papyrus (about 1552 BC) to feel for hard lumps in the breast as an indicator of malignancy (Sakorafas, G H. 2001).

May 8, 2009 – Siemens Healthcare has filed an exploratory Investigational New Drug (eIND) application with the FDA for a new imaging agent [18F]-SMIBR-W372, to image amyloid plaque associated with Alzheimer's Disease.

May 8, 2009 – Siemens Healthcare announces FDA 510(k) clearance for the new Biograph TruePoint 16-slice PET/CT system, which is now commercially available.

May 8, 2009 - Positron Systems Inc. signed a Letter of Intent with Idaho State University (ISU) that will set the stage in a public/private partnership for the production and distribution of molybdenum-99 (99Mo), a widely used isotope in nuclear medicine.

May 8, 2009 - Agfa HealthCare penned an agreement with ZNA (Ziekenhuis Netwerk Antwerpen - Hospital Network Antwerp) for the delivery of its IMPAX 6 image management solution to support and centralize the diagnostic and clinical imaging needs of its nine sites across the city.

May 9, 2009 - The Medipattern Corp. signed another Enterprise Wide B-CAD-FOR-LIFE managed service contract with Metropolitan Diagnostic Imaging Group LLC (MDIG), a group that has 13 radiologists that operate out of seven sites pushing the total licenses worldwide to over 100.

IMPAC SOFTWARE SELECTED TO PRESENT AT THE ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS LAB
DURING 2009 ASCO ANNUAL MEETING
May 8, 2009 – Impac Software, part of the Elekta Group, has been selected to present at the Electronic Health Records (EHR) Lab during the 2009 American Society of Clinical Oncology’s (ASCO) Annual
Meeting, May 29 - June 2, at the Orange County Convention Center, in
Orlando, Fla.


May 8, 2009 - The debate heats up amongst doctors in the advent of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) decision on reimbursement for virtual colonoscopy (also known as CT colonography or CTC).

May 8, 2009 - ProSolv CardioVascular said Allina Hospitals and Clinics in Minneapolis, Minn., recently selected the Synapse ProSolv cardiovascular solution to become its enterprise cardiovascular system.

May 7, 2009 - With the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act set to spur their development and implementation, electronic health records (EHRs) are getting a lot of attention while businesses like Google and Wal-Mart have begun to develop their own EHR tools.

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