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Challenging Breast Cases - Case 7

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Moving on to the next case. So the history

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here. I'm going to start with the 2011 exam

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this patient had at this time

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was 44 years old and had a palpable left

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breast lump.

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And we had some images we had some difficulty getting the static images

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to work and be de-identified. So what

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I what I'm going to show you here is the cine clip.

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The mammogram was done and just showed a large.

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Well, circumscribed, Mass.

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So I'm going to send you show you this cineclip and

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over here is the measurements of this mass that

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you'll see.

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So there's the mass.

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I'll pause it.

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And get back to those measurements. So again, the measurements were 3.9

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by 3.3 by 1.3 centimeters.

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With a volume of just under 9 cc's.

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So this underwent ultrasound guided biopsy and was

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shown to be a simple fiber adenoma.

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And she just returned to clinical and annual screening follow-up.

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In 2014. I she saw

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another primary care provider who felt this mess

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and thought well, let's just take another look at this. It's been a

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couple years. So again this the initial biopsy was

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January 2011, and this is

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Um, July of 2014 so you

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can see I put the measurements here.

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So to refresh your memory it previously measured

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3.9.

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By 3.3 by 1.3 centimeters and

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the volume previously was almost nine CC

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so it did get a little bit bigger mostly in

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one dimension. Maybe a little bit in the other dimension.

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But this was quite mobile and that was

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felt to be part of the

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Difference so I'll show you the clip here.

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And I think you can visually see it's a bit taller

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than it was before.

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Okay.

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So at this point, I'd like to show the polling question

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for this case.

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So what is the next best step in this patient we've had.

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About three and a half years and a slight interval increase

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in size maybe about 50% increase

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by volume biopsy proven fiber adenoma.

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Great. Okay, so pretty much.

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Everyone who answered wants to biopsy

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it again.

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And I will say I think there isn't

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a clear there's no clear evidence based

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recommendation for what to

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do. In this case. I will tell you I was

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the one that interpreted this and felt

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like it was visible on the mammogram and

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she could feel it and just said

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I think it's

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an okay amount of growth and Let It Go.

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Okay, and then I will just show you so she ended

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up coming back about 10 months. Later.

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And this is what we saw.

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So this had rapidly increased

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in size so

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per the patient. She really hadn't felt any changes until very recently

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after this where this just rapidly

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increased in size. There was some history

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of possibly a mild trauma.

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So some thinking that maybe this could be hematoma, but

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because it was so suspicious and the

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patient really didn't have any bruising she underwent

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biopsy.

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Which was initially actually non-diagnostic and she

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underwent subsequently a surgical excisional biopsy

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which showed to be an aggressive

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malignant philoides.

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So this is a very sad case.

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so I'll just start showing the

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mips here. So just as we saw in that

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MRI, this was benign over

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here, but just as we saw, I'm sorry on the ultrasound. There's

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a very large.

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Mass

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where this other where this fiber had had Noma

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had been

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And here's the t2 the surgeon said

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when she went in and did the surgical excision. It

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was very

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soft

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very soft tumor

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So it showed.

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pretty T2 bright here almost looks

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like fluid

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with some fluid around it

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and as you can see from the mips that enhanced a

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lot.

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Here's a subtraction.

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Okay, I'll just show the post

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contrast.

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Which not surprisingly just showed a lot of enhancement.

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So and there we go. Lots of

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enhancement.

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and fallouty's

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can have this kind of cleft this is

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described at pathology this cleft appearance, which I wonder if

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this is what we're seeing here on the MRI.

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I think the main teaching point with this is

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with this case

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I'm just gonna bring this up again.

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Certainly going forward. This was a very this was

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a very large mass to begin with and

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Again, when I looked into this, there's

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not clear.

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Guidelines set forth as

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to what size these should be removed and I'm not

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sure even if we had biopsied this in 2014 if

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we would have gotten floaties.

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But I think going at this point going forward. I certainly

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would have rebiopsied it possibly just said, you know, this is

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pretty big. It should just come out. Of course this case influences

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me.

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And the pathologist actually went back and looked at

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the 2011 biopsy sample and said

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no it just like fibroadnoma.

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And it probably you know fibradenoma and

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poloides are on the same spectrum pathologically and

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there may just have been a small 40s segment that

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kept growing and eventually became malignant.

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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