Table 1 Selected published results of breast MRI

From: Current applications and future direction of MR mammography

Author

Year

Number of lesions

Number of cancers

Sensitivity

Specificity

Heywang (Heywang-Kobrunner et al, 1989)

1989

150

71

0.98

0.65

Kaiser (Buckley et al, 1997)

1989

191

58

1.0

0.97

Gilles (Bradley et al, 2000)

1994

143

64

0.95

0.53

Orel (Orel et al, 1995)

1995

166

64

0.92

0.88

Bone (Brown et al, 2000)

1997

238

145

0.92

0.72

Drew (Drew et al, 1998)

1998

105

9

1.0

0.93

Lui (Liu et al, 1998)

1998

120

70

0.93

0.74

Malich (Malich et al, 2001)

2001

90

62

0.98

0.81