Authors: Justus Apffelstaedt John P Mouton Karin Baatjes
Publish Date: 2010/08/12
Volume: 34, Issue: 11, Pages: 2782-2783
Abstract
In their comment 1 on our paper 2 Drs Anderson and Azavedo both from resourcerich environments contend that we have abandoned the BIRADS 3 approach to mammography interpretation It seems to us that the commentators did not read the article’s Methods section properly We state explicitly that image interpretation was based on BIRADS categorization of mammography The commentators apparently are not aware of the complex resourceintensive followup required by BIRADS for category 3 lesions otherwise they might have concluded that in a resourcerestricted environment such followup may be problematic As clinicians we are acutely aware of the situation of our indigent patients and the need to make a definitive diagnosis in as few steps as possible In a resourcerestricted environment collapse of BIRADS 3 and 4 lesions into one category makes sense
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