Article History
Received: 25 July 2021
Revised: 1 December 2021
Accepted: 4 January 2022
First Online: 8 April 2022
Declarations
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Mariko Goto, MD, PhD, lecturer of the Department of Radiology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine.
: The authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies, whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.
: Written informed consent was waived by the Institutional Review Board.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.
: Some subjects have been included in a previous study which was published in <i>Radiology</i> (reference #23) to introduce and validate the method (S-index) for diagnosis purposes. The present study was performed with a cohort of 153 patients (with 160 lesions), including the 56 invasive breast carcinoma patients (with 60 lesions) included in the previous study, with a different goal (correlation with molecular biomarkers). We have included this important information in the manuscript at the part of “Materials and Methods.”
: • retrospective• diagnostic or prognostic study• performed at one institution