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54 yr old female presents with painful new lump in left breast. Prior negative mammogram.

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All right, so that was case. Number one. So case

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number two 54 year old female presenting

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with a painful new lump in her left breast negative mammogram

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two months prior.

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So, you know if it was a negative mammogram two

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months prior you could you could consider going straight to

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ultrasound at that point. For some reason. We did

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a mammogram. You'll see this triangular marker

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right where she's having the lump.

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You can see that she's got this prefectural saline

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implant the peck goes the

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saline implant is in front of the pack. So it means a prepectoral

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we know it's saline because you can see through it and

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you can see the nozzle for the saline infusion.

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So again, she's got this

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area of palpable concern indicated by the Triangular marker.

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again, nothing really two

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months prior

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on the implant displays you there's maybe a

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little skin retraction there.

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So what is the next step for the

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area of palpable concern on this diagnostic mammogram?

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So we want to reassure her send her

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for a surgical console do an ultrasound or

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do a biasy?

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Good, so everyone got that right great. So

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yes, you always want to do an ultrasound if something

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is palpable. So if that's why they have to be a diagnostic so

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you can do that ultrasound, even though the mammogram looks normal

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definitely want to get an ultrasound.

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So right ultrasounds correct and

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at 11 o'clock three centimeters. So nipple we

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see an irregular hypochoic mass and abnormal

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lymph node as well. Like I

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said, we always look in the in the

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axilla to see if there's any abnormal nodes. So what

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would be your appropriate virus for this, Mass?

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Notice I left Pirates five out.

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So there's no confusion.

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Good, so everyone's gotten that right. So you guys are

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doing good here. All right, so let's keep going.

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Yeah, so that's a byrid for obviously you're gonna want to do a

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biopsy if if you

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see it on ultrasound and Starry and

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mammogram. It's better to do it under ultrasound because

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what we're really going for is you want to

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know if it's invasive cancer and if you do a stereo

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and Target the calcification you might get dcis but

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no Invasion and you may be falsely reassured so

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they won't do nodes. They won't do a sentinel node

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biopsy or anything like that. So that's why it's important if you see it

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on mammogram or ultrasound and have the choice you want to do it under ultrasound.

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So, of course this came back as invasive grade

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three, you know, it always tells us that estrogen

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progesterone receptors and the herd who

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knew and that lymph node

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with but it was positive as well.

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This is what it looks like on the MRI. You can see it's sitting

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right on top of her breast implant and she's

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got that abnormal node.

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Faculty

Robyn G Roth, MD

Women's Imaging Fellowship Director, Assistant Professor of Radiology

Cooper University Hospital

Tags

Ultrasound

Oncologic Imaging

Mammography

Breast