Diagnostic Breast MRI

• Women with very strong genetic risk factors, particularly those with dense breasts or breast implants.
• Women with equivocal palpable lumps that are not demonstrable on other imaging studies.
• Further imaging evaluation in cases of equivocal mammograms or ultrasounds.
• Women who present with malignant axillary lymph nodes or other metastatic disease and no known primary malignancy.
• Women with infiltrating lobular carcinoma.
• Assessing adequacy of tumor resection.
• Assessing equivocal cases of local or multi-focal recurrence after radiation therapy.
• Perhaps pre-surgical and radiation planning to seek mammographically occult lesions in women with breast cancer.