Non-cancerous tissues
Supplementary Table S1: Detection of microcalcification in different tissues by different techniques
Location of microcalcification
Iliac artery (intimal)
Coronary plaques
Medial layer of artery
Coronary plaque
Sub cutaneous
Periventricular white matter
Thyroid nodule
Carotid endarterectomy
Coronary atherectomy
Lesions with sclerosing aenosis
First metatarsophalangeal joints
Thyroid
Type of cancer/Disease
Renal transplantation
Atherosclerosis
Early hemodialysis patients
Atherosclerosis
Fat necrosis
Periventricular hemorrhage and leucomalacia
Hashimoto’s thyroiditis
Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerosis
Sclerosing adenosis
Gouty arthritis
Thyroid nodules
Differentiated thyroid cancers
Thyroid microcarcinoma
Papillary thyroid microcarcinoma
Cancer Tissues
Non-palpable thyroid nodule
Thyroid carcinoma
Thyroid cancer with neck lymph node metastasis
Infiltrating carcinoma, LCIS and benign lesions
Breast intraductal papillomas
Invasive carcinoma and DCIS
Technique used
VKS
VKS
VKS
18
F-NaF PET-CT
HE stain
HE stain
US
VKS
VKS
Mammography and US
Micropure imaging
US
US
US and elastosonography
US
US
Multiple-slice spiral CT
Contrast-enhanced US
LM, SEM, TEM and X-ray
CNB
Ultrasound-guided 14-G
semi-automated CNB
DCIS
Raman spectroscopy
DCIS with tubular adenoma
US-guided CNB
IC, IC with DCIS, fibroadenoma and duct adenosis
Mammography and US
Triple negative breast cancers with IDC and ILC
Mammography and US
Sclerosing
adenosis
Mammography and US
Breast
Lipid-secreting carcinoma (breast carcinoma)
Mammography
Breast carcinoma
Mammography
Malignant breast carcinoma
US
Breast carcinoma
Mammography and US
Angiolipoma (benign fatty tumor)
Mammography and US
In situ carcinomas and small non-palpable IC.
Mammography and US
Medullary carcinoma and atypical ductal hyperplasia
Mammography and US
IC and in-situ carcinomas benign
FTIR
DCIS
Mammography
Breast cancer
Mammography
DCIS
Mammography and US
Epididymal microlithiasis
US
Testis
Testicular tumors and intratubular germ cell neoplasia
Digital orchiography
Seminoma with burned out primary testicular tumor
US
Serous and mucinous tumor
CT Scan and MRI
Ovary
Glioblastoma
H&E stain
Brain
Gonadal germ cell tumor
US
Kidney
Abbreviations: HE-Hematoxylin & eosin, VKS-Von kossa stain, PET-Positron emission tomography, USUltrasonography, LM-Light microscopy, SEM-Scanning electron microscopy, TEM-Transmission electron
microscopy, CNB-Core needle biopsy, MRI-Magnetic resonance imaging, FTIR-Fourier transform infrared
spectroscopy, DCIS-Ductal carcinoma in situ, IC-Invasive carcinoma, LCIS-Lobular carcinoma in situ, IDCInvasive ductal carcinoma, ILC-Invasive lobular carcinoma, CT-computed tomography.
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