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Breast Imaging Overview Case 8

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Okay, so

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64 year old female presents with a palpable mass

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in the left breast

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This is what her mammogram looks like. You can

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see she's got some masses in the left breast.

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a little bit of skin thickening here

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So this is what her mammogram looks like. What is

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your next step?

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Okay, go to biopsy ultrasound MRI or

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no further workup needed.

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Good. So everyone did got that right? So

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you're gonna want to go to Ultrasound, you know,

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if this was a screener, then you would call her back you give

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her a zero, but she's a diagnostic because of palpable or she

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should be a diagnostic. So you're just gonna go into ultrasound. I'm just

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gonna describe this but this is a complex cystic

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mass. It's mixed sistic and solid it

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certainly large this obviously needs to buy at sea,

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but I just want to take a minute to I

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talked my residence about this a lot, but the difference between a

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complex versus a complicated cyst. So complicated

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sis can or you know, probably benign you

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can even call it a two or three depending on how you're feeling or

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how many the appearance of what how many others she has in

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the breath if it's palpable stuff like that. You know,

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they have low level internal Echoes maybe something internal Temptations,

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but nothing that looks suspicious. It's reasonable to get

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a tour of three but a complex this has a

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really high percentage of malignancy complexes have

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solid components. They've got nodularity.

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They've got thick internal Temptations those

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definitely need to provide seed. So you cannot

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use a word complicated and complex interchangeably.

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That's what certainly be a complex mass. And you would want

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to buy it see it so it'd be a birads four or five.

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so all of the following are well circumscribed

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cancers, except

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In the panel here.

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useless medullary tubular papillary or

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invasive

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Good. So yeah. Okay good. I said accept.

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Yes. So tubular is typically a slow growing

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spiculated math. All the

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others medullary mucinous papillary are

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all subtypes of invasive ductal that

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are well circumscribed. So the reason in dates of

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ductal fits on here is because there are you know,

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these are all types of invasive ductile. So they're subtype and

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because invasive ductal. Well, I'm Gonna

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Leave This question here the most common type of well circumscribe cancer

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is which

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Good. Yeah, so invasive ductal is the most common because it's

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just the most common overall, you know, triple negative

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tend to be the most common invasive ductiles that

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are round balls. They grow so fast, they don't even have

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time to become a regular and speculated. So yeah,

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and basic ductile is going to be the most common and like I said all these

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are subtites of invasive ductal. So yeah, so going

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back to this case you 64. It's a palpable math and

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her left breast. That means she's a diagnostic mammogram. So

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you're gonna want to go to ultrasound next certainly. It's

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gonna need to biopsy. This is a buyer four or

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five. This is a complex cystic mass.

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Tubular is not well circumscribed.

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It's a slow growing irregular speculative mass in

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these abductal's most common. This is

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what her T1 pre-contrast looked like.

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So, you know, this is with fats attraction. So what's great

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on T1, pre-- You've got

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blood blood or protein so

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mucine mucin is T1 bright. So this is a mucinous Cancer

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and just to show you this is

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what our path look like. So it says invasive to invasive ductal

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cancer mucinous type. So that's why

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it's a subtype of invasive ductal.

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Okay.

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So, um, I'm gonna stop

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here to open it up for any questions. If you have any please

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feel free to unmute yourself and ask a question.

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And and I hope you found

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this helpful. Thank you so much you guys, too.

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Faculty

Robyn G Roth, MD

Women's Imaging Fellowship Director, Assistant Professor of Radiology

Cooper University Hospital

Tags

Ultrasound

Mammography

MRI

Breast