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Challenging Breast Cases - Case 3

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So we're moving on to the next case and you can see here on

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the left is the screening mlo image

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from the year before and this is the current

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screening mammogram image.

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This is a 70 year old woman.

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Who is just like I said undergoing screening mammogram?

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So take a look at these images.

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also show you the

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CC

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Okay. And again, this was the this is the

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current.

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screening mammogram

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image and the one-year prior

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and I'm going to show you all four.

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Okay.

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So please show the polling question

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for this exam.

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Okay. So after you've reviewed these images, what would you

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like to do with this patient? Would you like to bring her in for

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a diagnostic mammogram and ultrasound of the

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right breast and axilla or just look only

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at the right low axilla?

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Or do you think this all looks fine and you just have her go

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back to screening or would you recommend an MRI

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off of the screening exam?

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Great. Okay. So all of you want

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to bring this patient back and look at those axillary

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lymph nodes and some of

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you also want to look at the right breast. So that's perfect.

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Okay, so we

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called her back and

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let me pull up.

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The ultrasound images so we

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actually I'm just going to show the ultrasound images. Those are

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what are most useful Okay, so

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We looked in the axilla and we found these two

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areas.

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and went ahead and

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we're planning to do a biopsy.

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Now, this is not a polling question. So, let's see.

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Maybe we can have people.

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Vote in another way, but I want to know was was there

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any other area of the breast that you wanted

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to look at?

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Based on that mammogram. Let's see. I've got

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one.

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right upper outer quadrant

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So you probably are looking at this great anything

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else?

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I'll just give it a moment and then I'll move on to.

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What happened in this case? Okay, so I am just going to move on

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so this

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so when we brought this patient back all we did

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was look at these lymph nodes. We didn't think there was anything else in her

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breast and on the day of the biopsy the

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patient actually said, well, what about

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this area and the

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inferior aspect around my nipple where I've had this discoloration

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and skin thickening.

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So despite having some new symptoms from her

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breast. She hadn't mentioned them to anyone and including for

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the screening mammogram. So

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She mentioned this at the time of the biopsy so we went

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ahead and looked.

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At this area with with ultrasound and we

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found this mass that was partly going up

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into her nipple and extending in inferiorly into

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the underlying breast tissue.

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So I thought this

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Was an interesting case it's a very subtle.

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Change the two things. I want to show are.

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I'll just go back and show.

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the comparison images again

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So I think this is a very subtle finding but you

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can see there is a little bit of skin thickening and retraction.

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right behind the nipple

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This was the most recent exam.

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That we did not appreciate.

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Right there.

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The other thing I thought that was interesting about those cases just

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to show

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How we biopsied this?

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So there again is the mass we felt it was coming down into the breast

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tissue there. So that's what was targeted and I'll just show you

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the

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there's a lymph node biopsy and then there's where we biopsied under

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the nipple.

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So this ended up being a papillary carcinoma that

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arose in the nipple and metastasized to the

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lymph nodes.

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And I'll just show you.

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I think the best image on the MRI is the MIP.

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You can see this marked enhancement at

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the base and extending into the nipple very asymmetric with

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the other side.

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And again, this is the the right side and then

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you can see those.

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lymph nodes up there

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Faculty

Jennifer Kohr, MD

Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program Director

Virginia Mason Medical Center

Tags

Women's Health

Ultrasound

Mammography

MRI

Breast