Kaiser score for diagnosis of breast lesions presenting as non-mass enhancement on MRI.

Bing Zhang; Linlin Feng; Lin Wang; Xin Chen; Xiaohui LI; Quanxin Yang

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Kaiser score for diagnosis of breast lesions presenting as non-mass enhancement on MRI.

Author: Bing ZHANG ¹ ; Linlin FENG ¹ ; Lin WANG ¹ ; Xin CHEN ¹ ; Xiaohui LI ¹ ; Quanxin YANG ¹
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1. Department of Radiology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710004, China.
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Kaiser score; breast; magnetic resonance imaging; non-mass enhancement
MeSH: Breast; Breast Diseases; diagnostic imaging; Humans; Magnetic Resonance Imaging
From: Journal of Southern Medical University 2020;40(4):562-566
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of Kaiser score for breast lesions presenting as non-mass enhancement.
METHODS:We collected data from patients with breast lesions presenting as non-mass enhancement on preoperative DCE-MRI between January, 2014 and June, 2019. All the cases were confirmed by surgical pathology or puncture biopsy. With pathology results as the gold standard, we evaluated the diagnostic efficacy of Kaiser score and MRI BI-RADS classification and the consistency between the diagnostic results by the two methods and the pathological results.
RESULTS:A total of 90 lesions were detected in 88 patients, including 28 benign lesions (31.1%) and 62 malignant lesions (68.9%). For diagnosis of the lesions, the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value and accuracy of Kaiser Score were 100%, 75%, 89.9%, 100% and 92%, as compared with 93.5%, 46.4%, 79.5%, 76.5% and 78.9% of MRI BI-RADS, respectively. The diagnostic specificity of Kaiser score was significantly higher than that of BI-RADS classification (=0.021).
CONCLUSIONS:The Kaiser score system provides a diagnostic strategy for BI-RADS classification of breast lesions with non-mass enhancement and has a better diagnostic efficacy than BI-RADS classification alone. The use of Kaiser score can significantly improve the diagnostic specificity of such breast lesions for inexperienced radiologists.