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Table 3 Histopathological characteristics of patients with breast cancer*

From: Prevalence of focal incidental breast uptake on FDG-PET/CT and risk of malignancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Histopathology

Primary BC

Metastatic BC

Studies

IDC

DCIS

ILC

PC

Others**

Chae et al. (2012)

23 (71.8)

3 (9.3)

1 (3.3)

5 (15.6)

Kim et al. (2012)

10 (66.6)

3 (20)

2 (13.3)

Dunne et al. (2013)

8 (47)

2 (11.7)

1 (5.8)

1 (5.8)

3 (17.6)

2 (11.7)

Lim et al. (2013)

5 (55.5)

3 (33.3)

1 (11.1)

Minamimoto et al. (2015)

95 (77.2)

27 (21.9)

1 (0.8)

Benveniste et al. (2015)

19 (11.8)

1 (0.6)

1 (0.6)

2 (1.2)

2 (1.2)

135 (84.3)

Bertagna et al. (2015)

17 (68)

2 (8)

4 (16)

2 (8)

Shin et al. (2015)

21 (77.7)

1 (3.7)

1 (3.7)

2 (7.4)

2 (7.4)

  1. *Data was shown as frequency (percentage)
  2. **Others consisted of invasive mixed mucinous and ductal carcinoma, metaplastic breast cancer, papillary lesion with atypia, medullary carcinoma, tubular adenocarcinoma, sarcomatiod tumor, and fibrocarcinoma
  3. IDC invasive ductal carcinoma, DCIS ductal carcinoma in situ, ILC invasive lobular carcinoma, PC papillary carcinoma, BC breast cancer, FIBU focal incidental breast uptake