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Overall, the wonderful thing is that

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CEM-guided core biopsy is now available.

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You can get it.

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It's amazing.

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Um, I'll show you an example of how that's used.

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I know we're running out of time.

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So this was a patient who had a recombined

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only finding. Um, let me show you this.

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So this was a patient who had architectural distortion

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in the left breast, marked by that yellow arrow.

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And we did a biopsy, a tomosynthesis-guided biopsy.

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And you'll see that our clip is actually not where the

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tomosynthesis— where the architectural distortion was.

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So we weren't sure what to do about this.

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Did we sample appropriately

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the distortion and the clip moved, or were we just off?

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And this can happen with tomosynthesis-guided biopsy.

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I imagine everybody on the call

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or at least many people on the call have had this issue.

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So we did a contrast mammo to get more information,

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and we found that there was no enhancement in

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the area of distortion, which is great, but

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there was enhancement in the right breast.

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The enhancement here marked by the

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pink color was fibroadenoma, known fibroadenoma,

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but you'll see that there was actually an incidental

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enhancement in the, um, outer central right breast.

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And this was...

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This was a malignancy.

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So— but what we're, you know, what

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are we gonna do with this thing?

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We sent her to ultrasound, we couldn't find it.

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There was no associated correlate on the low-energy

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exam, so we had to send this patient to MRI.

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Um, but now with contrast-enhanced

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mammo biopsy, we'll be able to do that.

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Faculty

Jordana Phillips, MD

Division Chief of Breast Imaging, Boston Medical Center

Boston Medical Center

Tags

Oncologic Imaging

Neoplastic

Mammography

Diagnosis & Staging

Breast

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