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48 yr old female presents for screening mammogram

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Okay, next case. So 48 year old female presenting for

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screening.

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So this is her CC view her mllo

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view. I'm going to point out that this the

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tech has snuck on a little palpable marker. I'm just

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going to tell you her mammograms normal, but remember she's screening and

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she's presenting with the palpable area.

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So what is your favorite needs to

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be a zero all palpable lesions need to

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have an ultrasound?

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All palpable lesions need to have an ultrasound. So if

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they sneak one on they're like if the tech is doing a screening they're like,

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oh, yeah. I have this area of palpable. They should be calling you and

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letting you know, but if it flips by if you

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see it in their note or you see that palpable marker, you have

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to call them back for an ultrasound. So in

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this case, we you know called her back

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for an ultrasound. We did a spot compression. That'd be

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really don't see anything. We do an ultrasound and

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the area we don't see anything and the byrads there

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is gonna be a birads one. No suspicious finding in

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the area of concern further management should be

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based on clinical assessment.

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And the reason we say that is not because we're trying to cover our

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ass we are but but really there is a real concern

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for malignancies that are not seen on

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Imaging. So if a screener

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has a palpable you must give it a buyer at zero and call the patient back for an

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ultrasound always do an ultrasound and then palpable management

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of palpable lesions with a

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negative mammogram and ultrasound should be Basin clinical

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assessment. Which means

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That if it's suspicious they may require a surgical biopsy the

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rate of cancer with a negative mammogram and

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ultrasound approaches 4 percent. So it's not small and

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these are the cancers that we worry about the ones

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that we're going to miss, you know by our standard Imaging and you

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know, if you send

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them to a surgeon they would decide if they want an MRI or if

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they're going to just do a surgical biopsy based on how it feels we have

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a few cases like that where it was a negative mammogram and ultrasound and

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it did end up being a cancer.

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Faculty

Robyn G Roth, MD

Women's Imaging Fellowship Director, Assistant Professor of Radiology

Cooper University Hospital

Tags

Ultrasound

Screening

Oncologic Imaging

Mammography

Breast