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Management of Breast Calcifications - Case 9

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Okay, so moving on to question number nine. There's

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new calcification in the postalumpectomy oncoplastic

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reduction. What is

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the appropriate barat's assessment on these

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on this calcification? So this

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is by rats to benign finding

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what we see is a rim calcification

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with Associated fat and this

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is classic for fat necrosis. Usually fat

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necrosis occurs in the first two years of surgery

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or radiation. If it

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is, like let's say five six years unless it's

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a very classic fat necrosis calcification.

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I would you should have a low threshold

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to biopsy those.

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This is a companion case recently. It

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was a screening callback at a from a

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screening. This was right at the prior surgical site.

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So here you could see if I

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show you the other thing like here you could see there is

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a little bit of hold on one second. There is

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a little bit of fat.

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You could see inside and so my

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fellow was telling me that this could be fat necrosis. But

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when you think carefully when you

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look at it carefully, that's what I'm gonna do here. You

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could see there's a

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new density suggestive of

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a mass surrounding this fat. And by

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the way, this Distortion was it's supposed

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surgical. It's always been there. So it was

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supposed surgical distortion.

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But there's this new density and you

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could see these amorphous calcification extending anteriorly

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towards the nipple.

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So when you have both of these worries of features, you

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should prompt that should

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prompt a biopsy especially if you have Childs that

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are ductal and extending to the nipple with the

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exception of the large rod-like calcification.

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Make sure you have low threshold to

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biopsy. And in this case we biopsied and it

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was invasive Dental carcinoma with dcis.

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Jean Kunjummen, DO

Associate Professor, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences,

Emory School of Medicine

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Mammography

Breast