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Management of Breast Calcifications - Case 2

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Second case is a 40 year old female with

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calcification seen on Baseline screening mammogram.

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How would you describe these calcifications?

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Great. So the answer to this is around calcifications.

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Here you could see pretty round calcification

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in a grouped distribution.

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So the next question would be what would be

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the next step in managing this patient. So a

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single group of round or punctate calcifications

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can be assigned as bi rats

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3 after you work up with the magnification

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view given it's a baseline study.

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So the answer to this question is by rats

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3, which is short term mammographic follow-up again. It

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is a not by Red zero additional evaluation

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with MRI.

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Is not indicated for calcification workup of

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round calcification. It's not

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by rights to return to screening because it is

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a solitary group rather than bilateral and

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diffuse so you don't want to return them to screening

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and it is but it's not by rights

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for because it is on a baseline study

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and it's grouped round calcifications.

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In this case, you could see the magnification CC

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follow three years later. This has been stable for

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three years.

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So this is a companion case 42 year

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old with calcification seen on Baseline screening

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mammogram. You could see a group of punctate

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and round calcification in grouped distribution, since

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it was a baseline study by

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rights three was assigned.

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But when you look up when you look at the follow-up magnification

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view in one year, you could

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see there's a new mass now associated

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with the calcification. So obviously this virus

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three became barrettes for and it

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was pathology yields and invasive adult

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carcinoma with dcis.

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So the teaching point for group of

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round or punctate calcification is that

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if you have a solitary group of round slash

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functate calcification on a

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baseline study, you can be assigned Pirates

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three after you work up with magnification

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View.

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If those around calcifications are diffuse

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and bilateral becomes by rats, too.

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But you biopsy is needed when these round or

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punctate calcification is in a linear or segmental

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distribution, or if it is new

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or increasing or it's adjacent to

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a known cancer.

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Again, biopsy is needed on the follow-up exam if

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any of if there's any development of any suspicious

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morphology or suspicious math.

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Here you could see how the round cows round or

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punctate calcification can be barrettes too bar at

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three or barrettes for depending upon the

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different scenarios.

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Faculty

Jean Kunjummen, DO

Associate Professor, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences,

Emory School of Medicine

Tags

Screening

Mammography

Breast