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Acronyms

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"Round breast calcifications are a mammographic descriptor of typically benign breast calcifications characterised by a round shape. In the 5^th edition BI-RADS lexicon, the morphologic descriptor encompasses punctate calcifications, but the latter term more specifically applies to such calcifications measuring"

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"According to the BI-RADS atlas, round calcifications that are diffuse in distribution are benign (BI-RADS 2) ¹."

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"According to the BI-RADS atlas, round calcifications that are diffuse in distribution are benign (BI-RADS 2) ¹."

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"A single group of round (including punctate) calcifications on a baseline diagnostic evaluation may be classified as probably benign (BI-RADS 3) ^1,2. In the seminal series of 1,234 such calcifications, only 1 turned out to be associated with cancer ³."

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"If punctate calcifications are new, increasing, or linear or segmental in distribution, they are suspicious (BI-RADS 4) ¹. They are also suspicious if they are adjacent to a known cancer."

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Oxford Comma

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"rim calcification: lucent centre, nongrouped, round or oval"

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