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Okay, next case. Oh, well, it's related case.

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So 42 year old comes in for a

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screening mammogram. What's the appropriate buyer ads?

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Sorry for the old this is very old images, but

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you get the point of the finding.

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I think when I move my poll box.

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So, you know, this is a little controversial but

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technically this is a chew but you want to put something in your

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report that this is that you know, they need to have some underlying systemic

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disorder like well, let

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me get to the next question.

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So I'm not gonna even open this up but like

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lupus HIV and flammatory

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diseases can cause this and Dilantin as

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a drug that can cause this but breast cancer should not

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cause bilateral axillary lymphatinopathy.

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It should really cause unilateral so

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breast cancer would be least likely

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cause of this appearance, but certainly, you know

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for bilateral axial lymphadenopathy. It's usually something not breast

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cancer, but it doesn't mean it's not important. This could definitely be lymphoma.

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So often it requires just a conversation with

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the doctor who ordered it.

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You know, I looked through their chart. Sometimes I know they have shrogans or

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rheumatoid and that would explain it. But I'll

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put that in my report. But otherwise you want to make sure that's not

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lymphoma, but it's still a two, you know,

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even if you saw this and the patient really didn't have anything then I

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would kind of be a call to the doctor. We could always sample one

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of them if they you know, didn't have anything identifiable and

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you wanted to make sure it wasn't lymphoma. But you

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know, it's not breast cancer.

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To believe likely causes not breast cancer. So these

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are some bilateral x-ray lymph node causes. Like I said systemic disease

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is like sarcoid mixed knesset tissue

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disease granulomas is easy might see some horse calcifications

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in them. Also lymphoma early

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leukemia can certainly cause this and drug reaction from

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Dilantin in the classic cause

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but unilateral axialympadinopathy you

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want to make sure like I said that it's not primary breast cancer with

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ipsilateral spread and also infection or

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granulomitous disease can cause that

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or an extra capsular silicone leak, but that would usually

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be like a high density lymph node.

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Okay, great.

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Moving on so, you know

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axial lymphadenopathy some suspicious features you're going to have

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they're going to be large you're gonna have loss of the normal fatty hilum.

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You may see calcifications. It's always better evaluated with

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ultrasounds the one and back you might want to call them. But when in doubt you might

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want to call them back for an ultrasound.

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Okay, so this is another case. I'm gonna

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withhold the history.

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But take a minute and look at this.

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What causes this appearance?

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So it will open.

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This is gonna be radiation mastitis breast cancer

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or gynecomastia.

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Good, so everyone got that right? So yeah, this is flame shaped kind

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of a mastia and you know

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if it's a classic gynecomastia case on physical exam. It doesn't

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even need a a mammogram. But

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if you do you're what would

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your buyer ads be?

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piece on this

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Good, you know so it's not negative because there is

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a finding so I typically, you know reserve a negative for a

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true negative study. This is a guy and he's

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definitely got gynecomastia. He has a finding so

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that I think this is a two I mean, it's not

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it certainly benign or you know, so but

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technically would be a two

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Faculty

Robyn G Roth, MD

Women's Imaging Fellowship Director, Assistant Professor of Radiology

Cooper University Hospital

Tags

Mammography

Breast