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Mammography identified 83 (74.8%) out of 111 patients with plasma cell mastitis. Nineteen (17.1%) patients were misdiagnosed. There was no significant difference between the diagnostic accuracy of using two imaging tests ( P = 0.127). Mammography clouds identified 11 out of 20 patients who were not diagnosed by ultrasonography. Meanwhile, 19 of the 28 cases misdiagnosed with mammography were correctly identified by ultrasonography. Overall, 91.9% (102/111) of the patients were identified by the combination of ultrasonography and mammography, which yielded statistically significant higher accuracy than using each single test only ( P &lt; 0.05).</jats:p>\n                  </jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>CONCLUSIONS:</jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In diagnosis of plasma cell mastitis, high-frequency ultrasonography and mammography should be combined to improve the diagnostic accuracy.</jats:p>\n                  </jats:sec>","journal":"Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology: Clinical Applications of Diagnosis and Therapeutics","year":2020,"id":594177,"datarank":0.3596842909197557,"base_score":2.3978952727983707,"endowment":2.3978952727983707,"self_citation_contribution":0.3596842909197557,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.3596842909197557,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":10,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":116818,"name":"Xiaoling Huang","orcid":null,"position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":230565,"name":"Jun Hu","orcid":"0000-0001-7098-6272","position":0,"is_corresponding":false}],"reference_count":0,"raw_metadata":{"has_enrichment":true,"resolved":true,"title":"Combining ultrasonography and mammography to improve diagnostic accuracy of plasma cell mastitis","abstract":"<jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>OBJECTIVE:</jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>To evaluate the diagnostic value of ultrasonography and mammography for plasma cell mastitis.</jats:p>\n                  </jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>METHODS:</jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The ultrasonographic and mammographic images of 111 women with histopathologically confirmed plasma cell mastitis were retrospectively analyzed. 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