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Screening & Evaluation of Findings in Breast Imaging - Case 1

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All right. So what we're going to do today is we're going

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to go through some breast Imaging cases. So our first case is

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a 50 year old presenting for an annual screening mammogram.

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This was her mammogram and I'm just going to

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give you a brief moment to look over it because the next slide is much

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more important for the questions. So here's her mammogram.

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And this is what the image you need to look at. So take

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a look at this. This is the image with the part in

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finding.

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All right. Now we'll look at the question.

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and once you know the answer you can feel free to

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fill in your answers

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so it looks like the majority of people answered eggshell

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calcification and byret

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to

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and that is correct.

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And so these are oil sets. So let's go

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back and look at them. So.

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These are benign finding they are caused by fat and acrosis

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and we have the running calcifications

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that go fully around in 3D to

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represent like an eggshell. So the what happens with oil says is

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they are fat necrosis. And so what happens in

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Santa Cruz, this is traumas to the fat the fat liquefied.

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Think of the liquefies fat as the egg yolk and

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the Egg the center of the egg and then calcifications

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form around it just like an eggshell

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would right. And so that's what you're seeing here. These

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are oils that which are a result of fat necrosis. They're described

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classically by viruses HL calcifications

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and they are virus to benign.

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Faculty

Carolynn M DeBenedectis, MD

Associate Professor of Radiology

University of Massachusetts Medical School

Tags

Women's Health

Oncologic Imaging

Mammography

MRI

Breast