Jorge Andres Abreu MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

GLORIA PALAZUELOS, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Juliana Ocampo MD, Presenter: Nothing to Disclose

Carolina Rumie Valois, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Andres Vasquez MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Javier Andres Romero MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

To study and evaluate the impact of new imaging technologies, as Positron Emission Mammography PEM, in the diagnosis and management of common diseases of breast. To review the utility of PEM in the study of patients with high suspicion of malignancy in mammography and ultrasound (BI-RADS ® categories 4c and 5). To explain the application of the descriptors in PEM studies To identify the characteristics of breast lesions detected by PEM: Size, Uptake and localization.

Explain the use of descriptors in cases of PEM at our institution, compared with findings in Ultrasound and mammography. Explain an easy and correct way to interpret a PEM.

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Abreu, J, PALAZUELOS, G, Ocampo, J, Rumie Valois, C, Vasquez, A, Romero, J, Practical Assessment of Positron Emission Mammography (PEM) Descriptors: Radiologist Perspective.  Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL. http://archive.rsna.org/2014/14019119.html