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Management of Breast Calcifications - Case 6

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Um case six is a 60 year old screening

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callback.

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What you see is amorphous calcifications.

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These are

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calcifications which are difficult to see which

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means they are hazy on

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both CC and 90 degree views.

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So in contrast to Milk of calcium, which

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can be smudgy on CC View and

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kind of hard to see on CC view but you know layers on

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the 90 view a more foot calcifications

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are difficult to see on

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both CC and 90 view

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in other words. You cannot Define a particular

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shape to these calcifications.

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So these in this case it was a

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grouped amorphous calcification, which is

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also assigned by rats for

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So the teaching point for amorphous calcifications, as

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I said, it's like hazy on both CC and

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90 view the distribution

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is important just like the course heterogeneous calcification

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if it is diffuse and bilateral

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it becomes a pirates too if it

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is grouped segmental or linear, it becomes

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by rats for and the positive predictive value is

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around 25%

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Faculty

Jean Kunjummen, DO

Associate Professor, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences,

Emory School of Medicine

Tags

Screening

Mammography

Breast