With the advent of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), radiologists are seeing more architectural distortion from older benign surgeries than they had previously in FFDM, necessitating the need to look back at years of previous year images to determine if the architectural distortion on the DBT image is correlated to a previous surgery or is something new.

Scar markers when used year after year to mark surgical sites, help distinguish between a new or recurring breast cancer and normal post-surgical changes which may exhibit characteristics of an evolving cancer

• Clearly communicate the location, length, and shape of a post-surgical scar

• Maintains a reference point to the original surgery from year to year

• Easily correlates the surgical history with mammographic findings

• Communicates location of prior surgical site

• Calcifications found in the area marked by the scar marker can be examined relative to their location

• Helps reduce unnecessary additional imaging and diagnostic tests by differentiating suspicious lesions from benign architectural distortion as a result of a benign surgery