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Screening & Evaluation of Findings in Breast Imaging - Case 2

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Next we have a 40 year old female with a

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strong family history of breast cancer presenting for a

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screening Mr.

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This is the only image.

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I will go to the question.

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And a hundred percent of people correctly answered lineal

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linear ductal enhancement. So let's

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think there's a second question. Let's do the second

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question and then we will go back to the images and we will

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talk about it.

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All right, and people questions see people answer

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details and IDC and the correct answers DCS and

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we'll go back and discuss it as they said in a

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minute, but what's the next most appropriate step given

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the findings?

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And Mr. Guided biopsy 20% of you answered correctly

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is emerged biopsies and let's go back and

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look at the images. So what you're seeing here is you're seeing a duct

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emanating from the nipple. It is definitely linear enhancement

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in a ductile distribution. And then at the

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end you're seeing some non-math enhancement that signifies probably

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since some more abnormality in

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the lobule. So you're seeing a lobulous like a

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whole segment segmental ductal enhancement.

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um, this has happened mnemonic for dcis now the

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decision on

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what's biopsy

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The decision on what to biopsy is done

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based on what modality you see it on the best.

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So we see the ductile enhancement on MRI.

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So we would biopsy it on MRI.

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You know it the Assumption here is they've

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already had a mammogram and an ultrasound that were normal for them

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to go undergo this MRI or a mammogram. That

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was normal. I should say ductile and non-math enhancement.

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We don't do a second look ultrasound for second. Look ultrasound

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after Mr. Are really best for math enhancement or

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other abnormalities like abnormal lymphos, but when you come

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to non-math inductile enhancement, it's not very likely

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that you're going to see something on ultrasound. So we tend to go

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straight to Mr. Guided biopsy on that.

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So the differential for linear ductile handsome

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are on MRI is decis papilloma and

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fibrocystic change. So just because it's

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linear ductile enhancement doesn't necessarily mean it's dcis,

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but it's the most it's one of the things in the

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differential it was the only choice from this differential in our question,

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but you can also see papillomas or papillomatosis look

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like this and you can even see not quite this

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This image probably would never be fibrocystic change.

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It could be papillomatosis, but sometimes fibrosis to change you

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can see some linear ductal type enhancement as

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well.

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Faculty

Carolynn M DeBenedectis, MD

Associate Professor of Radiology

University of Massachusetts Medical School

Tags

Women's Health

Oncologic Imaging

MRI

Breast