Mammography Assessment Category Zero: Why Additional Imaging is Needed
1. Introduction Receiving a mammography report with an assessment of BI-RADS Category Zero frequently induces immediate panic for a patient. The term “zero” intuitively feels alarming, often misinterpreted as a severe warning or a definitive indicator of an underlying malignancy. However, in the standardized lexicon of breast radiology, this category carries a very specific, structural … Read more