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Mammography accurate in women with end-Stage renal disease. (Calcifications Don't Impact Results).

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| January 01, 2002 | Macready, Norra | COPYRIGHT 2002 International Medical News Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

SAN FRANCISCO -- Women with end-stage renal disease have an increased rate of benign breast calcifications, but these do not interfere with the accurate interpretation of mammograms, Dr. Mario Castellanos said at the annual World Congress of Nephrology.

In the largest study of its kind to date, Dr. Castellanos and his colleagues at Staten Island (N.Y.) Hospital compared mammograms of 45 women who were undergoing dialysis with those of 86 women without renal disease and found an incidence of breast calcifications of 84% and 59%, respectively. The higher incidence in the renal patients was due entirely to benign-appearing morphologies, Dr. Castellanos said at the meeting, sponsored ...

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