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Case 3: Focal asymmetry

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Here's our next case. So here's a screening mammogram.

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I'm just showing the side that had the finding.

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So this patient was recalled from screening mammogram for a focal asymmetry in

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the inner central posterior right breast. So these are the,

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the reconstructed CVU images.

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And I'm gonna now scroll through the tomosynthesis slices.

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And I think this is a tough finding. You know,

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I do see that there is an asymmetry there, but I do, I do think that I,

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I see interspersed fat within it that makes me think that it could just be her

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normal fibro glandular tissue here on the, the lateral view.

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The same thing when I'm scrolling through it,

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that finding blends in with the tissue where I, I think it's,

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it might just be her normal tissue, but it's just she was recalled.

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So we did additional spot compression views and the spot compression views with

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tomosynthesis are really helpful to show that that just represents normal

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overlapping breast tissue. So here's, um,

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the two D spot compression views and here's our three D images. And um,

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as I scroll through, I,

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all I can see is her normal overlapping fibro glandular tissue.

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When I follow the individual lines,

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they are around fat lobules representing the fibro glandular tissue,

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but I don't see a discrete mass or any area of architectural distortion.

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So this was a asymmetry that was recalled.

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And with an additional SP impression images,

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we were able to confirm that this did not represent a true pathology.

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Faculty

Emily B. Ambinder, MD

Assistant Professor - Breast Imaging Division

The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins Medicine

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Tomosynthesis

Neoplastic

Mammography

Breast