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They are not a component of American College of Radiology BI-RADS, but they are a finding type included in the Japan Association of Breast and Thyroid Sonology lexicon. Use of the NML finding is routine in many Asian practices, including the Samsung Medical Center and Seoul National University Hospital, and their features and outcomes have been investigated in multiple studies. Nonmass lesions are most often observed when US is used to evaluate mammographic asymmetries, suspicious calcifications, and nonmass enhancement on MRI and contrast-enhanced mammography. Nonmass lesions can be described by their echogenicity, distribution, presence or absence of associated calcifications, abnormal duct changes, architectural distortion, posterior shadowing, small cysts, and hypervascularity. Malignant lesions, especially ductal carcinoma in situ, can manifest as NMLs on US. There is considerable overlap between the US features of benign and malignant NMLs, and they also must be distinguished from normal variants. The literature indicates that NMLs with linear or segmental distribution, associated calcifications, abnormal duct changes, posterior shadowing, and hypervascularity are suggestive of malignancy, whereas NMLs with only interspersed small cysts are usually benign fibrocystic changes. 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