Sentence examples for suspicious of malignancy from inspiring English sources

B: Benign I: Benign, but uncertain malignant potential S: Suspicious of malignancy M: Malignant The findings of all breast US examinations were classified after the modification according to American College of Radiology Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System Atlas for Ultrasound[ 19] as follows.

The histology/cytology results were malignant in 230, suspicious of malignancy in 8, benign but uncertain of malignant potential in 29, benign in 231 and unsatisfactory/normal tissue in 66.

B4 Suspicious of malignancy Atypical ductal hyperplasia B5 Malignant May be subdivided into malignant-in-situ or malignant invasive.

Lee et al. performed a study to investigate the predictive value of the two borderline B-categories, B3 (uncertain malignant potential) and B4 (suspicious of malignancy) [ 7].

It has been suggested that some of these positive cases might constitute cases undergoing malignant transformation as features suspicious of malignancy such as hypercellularity, increased nucleus cytoplasm ratio and mitoses were observed although no invasion of the capsule or blood vessels was present (Saggiorato et al, 2001; Coli et al, 2002).

There is a risk of underestimating the disease present for lesions of uncertain malignant potential (Cat B3) and suspicious of malignancy (Cat B4) results with 25% of patients with a B3 biopsy found to have cancer at subsequent surgery and 66% of those with a B4 biopsy.

Specific aspects for examination on a CT scan during the preoperative evaluation for goiter include extension, mass effect, and suspicious features of malignancy [2, 43].

In this respect, the additional value of USE is likely to be greatest for nodules that are indeterminate on conventional US in terms of displaying one or two mildly suspicious features of malignancy, which would all undergo FNAC under the current guidelines.

Forty-five cases underwent dilatation and curettage (D and C) after endometrial biopsy because endometrial biopsy revealed suspicious diagnosis of malignancy.

If benign groups are present, the category of suspicious for malignancy is used, regardless of the degree of atypia in the remainder of the smear.

Smoothly outlined round or oval lesions tend more to be benign, while speculated lesions are more suspicious of a malignancy.