Professor of Radiology, University Wash
Radiology
Dr. Constance D. Lehman, MD
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Constance D. Lehman, MD is an expert in the field of Radiology. He studied medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. Yale University School of Medicine is one of the top medical schools in the US. Yale University School of Medicine is ranked 7 in research and 57 in primary care medicine He received 3 awards: "America's Top Doctors", "America's Top Doctors for Cancer" and "Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare". Constance Lehman has written publications. He has 98 publications published with PubMed. The lastest publication is: 'Screening MRI in Women With a Personal History of Breast Cancer.' Constance Lehman accepts all Medicare patients.
Publications
- Availability of Advanced Breast Imaging at Screening Facilities Serving Vulnerable Populations.
- Screening MRI in Women With a Personal History of Breast Cancer.
- ACR BI-RADS Use in Low-Income Countries: An Analysis of Diagnostic Breast Ultrasound Practice in Uganda.
- Diagnostic Accuracy of Digital Screening Mammography With and Without Computer-Aided Detection.
- Factors Associated with Preoperative Magnetic Resonance Imaging Use among Medicare Beneficiaries with Nonmetastatic Breast Cancer.
- Accuracy of 3T versus 1.5T breast MRI for pre-operative assessment of extent of disease in newly diagnosed DCIS.
- Comparative effectiveness of combined digital mammography and tomosynthesis screening for women with dense breasts.
- Diffusion-weighted imaging: Effects of intravascular contrast agents on apparent diffusion coefficient measures of breast malignancies at 3 tesla.
- Suspicious Axillary Lymph Nodes Identified on Clinical Breast MRI in Patients Newly Diagnosed with Breast Cancer: Can Quantitative Features Improve Discrimination of M...
- Breast MRI BI-RADS assessments and abnormal interpretation rates by clinical indication in US community practices.
- Imaging management of palpable breast abnormalities.
- Imaging-based screening: understanding the controversies.
- Breast DCE-MRI: Influence of Postcontrast Timing on Automated Lesion Kinetics Assessments and Discrimination of Benign and Malignant Lesions.
- Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy in the American College of Radiology Imaging Network 6667 Trial: Effect of Breast MR Imaging Assessments and Patient Characterist...
- Screening Ultrasound as an Adjunct to Mammography in Women with Mammographically Dense Breasts.
- Diffusion-Weighted MRI: Association Between Patient Characteristics and Apparent Diffusion Coefficients of Normal Breast Fibroglandular Tissue at 3 T.
- Preoperative MRI improves prediction of extensive occult axillary lymph node metastases in breast cancer patients with a positive sentinel lymph node biopsy.
- Digital breast tomosynthesis and the challenges of implementing an emerging breast cancer screening technology into clinical practice.
- Performance goals for an adjunct diagnostic test to reduce unnecessary biopsies after screening mammography: analysis of costs, benefits, and consequences.
- Patterns of Breast Magnetic Resonance Imaging Use in Community Practice.
- ACR Appropriateness Criteria Palpable Breast Masses.
- Accuracy and interpretation time of computer-aided detection among novice and experienced breast MRI readers.
- Radiologists' Performance in the ACR Breast MR With Guided Biopsy Course.
- Breast magnetic resonance imaging: diffusion-weighted imaging.
- Clinical and technical considerations for high quality breast MRI at 3 tesla.
- Ensuring High-Quality Breast MR Imaging Technique and Interpretation.
- Breast density legislation.
- ACR Appropriateness Criteria Breast Cancer Screening.
- The importance of survivors and partners in improving breast cancer outcomes in Uganda.
- Nonmalignant Breast Lesions: ADCs of Benign and High-Risk Subtypes Assessed as False-Positive at Dynamic Enhanced MR Imaging.
- Accuracy and value of breast ultrasound for primary imaging evaluation of symptomatic women 30-39 years of age.
- Imaging axillary lymph nodes in patients with newly diagnosed breast cancer.
- Breast Density Legislation and Opportunities for Patient-centered Outcomes Research.
- ACR Appropriateness Criteria® stage I breast carcinoma.
- Positive Predictive Value of BI-RADS MR Imaging.
- In Vivo Assessment of Ductal Carcinoma in Situ Grade: A Model Incorporating Dynamic Contrast-enhanced and Diffusion-weighted Breast MR Imaging Parameters.
- Diffusion-weighted MRI: influence of intravoxel fat signal and breast density on breast tumor conspicuity and apparent diffusion coefficient measurements.
- Lobular In-Situ Neoplasia on Breast Core Needle Biopsy: Imaging Indication and Pathologic Extent Can Identify Which Patients Require Excisional Biopsy.
- Characterization of ductal carcinoma in situ on diffusion weighted breast MRI.
- The utility of breast MRI as a problem-solving tool.
- Probability of malignancy for lesions detected on breast MRI: a predictive model incorporating BI-RADS imaging features and patient characteristics.
- High cancer yield and positive predictive value: outcomes at a center routinely using preoperative breast MRI for staging.
- Atypical ductal hyperplasia on vacuum-assisted breast biopsy: suspicion for ductal carcinoma in situ can stratify patients at high risk for upgrade.
- Dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging and invasive breast cancer: primary lesion kinetics correlated with axillary lymph node extracapsular extension.
- Targeted ultrasound in women younger than 30 years with focal breast signs or symptoms: outcomes analyses and management implications.
- Association between serial dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI and dynamic 18F-FDG PET measures in patients undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy for locally advanced breast c...
- Breast MRI in community practice: equipment and imaging techniques at facilities in the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium.
- Frequency, upgrade rates, and characteristics of high-risk lesions initially identified with breast MRI.
- Frequency of malignancy seen in probably benign lesions at contrast-enhanced breast MR imaging: findings from ACRIN 6667.
- Risk of upgrade of atypical ductal hyperplasia after stereotactic breast biopsy: effects of number of foci and complete removal of calcifications.
- Effects of lesion positioning on digital magnification mammography performance.
- Apparent diffusion coefficient values for discriminating benign and malignant breast MRI lesions: effects of lesion type and size.
- Probably benign lesions detected on breast MR imaging.
- Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI kinetics of invasive breast cancer: a potential prognostic marker for radiation therapy.
- Differential diagnosis of mammographically and clinically occult breast lesions on diffusion-weighted MRI.
- Preoperative and intraoperative sonographic visibility of collagen-based breast biopsy marker clips.
- Diffusion tensor MRI: preliminary anisotropy measures and mapping of breast tumors.
- Magnetic resonance imaging in the evaluation of ductal carcinoma in situ.
- Quantitative diffusion-weighted imaging as an adjunct to conventional breast MRI for improved positive predictive value.
- Disclosing harmful mammography errors to patients.
- The role of MRI in breast cancer screening.
- BI-RADS lesion characteristics predict likelihood of malignancy in breast MRI for masses but not for nonmasslike enhancement.
- Clinical indication and patient age predict likelihood of malignancy in suspicious breast MRI lesions.
- Characteristics of probably benign breast MRI lesions.
- MRI-detected suspicious breast lesions: predictive values of kinetic features measured by computer-aided evaluation.
- Utility of targeted sonography for breast lesions that were suspicious on MRI.
- Indications for breast MRI in the patient with newly diagnosed breast cancer.
- Frequency and upgrade rates of atypical ductal hyperplasia diagnosed at stereotactic vacuum-assisted breast biopsy: 9-versus 11-gauge.
- Is surgical excision necessary for focal atypical ductal hyperplasia found at stereotactic vacuum-assisted breast biopsy?
- Metabolic and vascular features of dynamic contrast-enhanced breast magnetic resonance imaging and (15)O-water positron emission tomography blood flow in breast cancer.
- Magnetic resonance imaging--guided breast interventions.
- Statement of the science concerning locoregional treatments after preoperative chemotherapy for breast cancer: a National Cancer Institute conference.
- Lesion and patient characteristics associated with malignancy after a probably benign finding on community practice mammography.
- BI-RADS MRI enhancement characteristics of ductal carcinoma in situ.
- Cancer yield of probably benign breast MR examinations.
- Computer-assisted mammography feedback program (CAMFP) an electronic tool for continuing medical education.
- Cancer yield of mammography, MR, and US in high-risk women: prospective multi-institution breast cancer screening study.
- Breast MR imaging: computer-aided evaluation program for discriminating benign from malignant lesions.
- Testing the effect of computer-assisted detection on interpretive performance in screening mammography.
- Role of MRI in screening women at high risk for breast cancer.
- Performance benchmarks for screening mammography.
- Screening MRI for women at high risk for breast cancer.
- Mammographic density correlation with Gail model breast cancer risk estimates and component risk factors.
- A new automated software system to evaluate breast MR examinations: improved specificity without decreased sensitivity.
- Added cancer yield of MRI in screening the contralateral breast of women recently diagnosed with breast cancer: results from the International Breast Magnetic Resonanc...
- Computer-aided detection applied to breast MRI: assessment of CAD-generated enhancement and tumor sizes in breast cancers before and after neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
- Clinical experience with MRI-guided vacuum-assisted breast biopsy.
- Breast cancer yield for screening mammographic examinations with recommendation for short-interval follow-up.
- The incremental contribution of clinical breast examination to invasive cancer detection in a mammography screening program.
- Combined use of MRI and PET to monitor response and assess residual disease for locally advanced breast cancer treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
- MR-guided vacuum-assisted breast biopsy: accuracy of targeting and success in sampling in a phantom model.
- Report of the Working Groups on Breast MRI: report of the High-Risk Screening Group.
- MRI-guided breast biopsy: clinical experience with 14-gauge stainless steel core biopsy needle.
- MR imaging-guided breast biopsy using a coaxial technique with a 14-gauge stainless steel core biopsy needle and a titanium sheath.
- Position of clip placement after vacuum-assisted breast biopsy: is a unilateral two-view postbiopsy mammogram necessary?
- Performance of diagnostic mammography for women with signs or symptoms of breast cancer.
- Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer: Functional Tumor Volume by MR Imaging Predicts Recurrence-free Survival-Results from the ACRIN 6657/CALGB 150007 I-SPY 1 TR...
Schools
Yale University
University Of Wa School Of Med
Doctors Specialties
- Diagnostic Radiology
- Radiology
Accepted Insurances
- Aetna
- Blue Card PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- Open Access Plus
- Commercial Insurance Company
- First Choice Health PPO
- Coop Core
- Guardian
- HealthSmart
- Humana
- Medicaid
- Medicare MCR
- Molina
- MultiPlan PPO
- ODS Health Plan
- Providence Health Plans
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
- United Healthcare
- Wells Fargo Insurance
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- America's Top Doctors for Cancer
- Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare
Education
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University of Washington -
Yale University School of Medicine
Hospital
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University of Washington Medical Center -
Massachusetts General Hospital
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1447479274 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | LEHMAN |
| First Name Of The Provider | CONSTANCE |
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