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Screening & Evaluation of Findings in Breast Imaging - Case 9

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So now we have a 40 year old postpartum. No, she

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is lactating female with a new right

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breast.

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Mass. All right.

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Go to the question.

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So what is these least likely diagnosis from the

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answers?

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And I'll go back and I'll move this over so that

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everyone can see.

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All right. Looks like we have our answer.

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All right, so

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We have a bunch of different a bunch of different opinions. It looks

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like a third a third a third. So no one thought access but

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if there's that Pokemon say that there's IDC in

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a third Galactus deal. All right.

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And then what?

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What is the risk of biasing a patient with?

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What is the risk of biopsy in this specific patient?

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And we'll get to all the answers at the end.

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All right, a milkfish still at excellent. Excellent. Excellent.

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Excellent.

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So

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to talk about the first question the least likely diagnosis.

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I want to First describe it and then we're going to

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go to the differential and you'll see why all these are on

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the differential but one is very unlikely, but it's important to keep it

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in mind.

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All right, so we have a mass

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of multiple different echogenicities. We have

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some areas of fluid not a

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ton of hyperemia.

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But there's a little bit so, you know.

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Math that you expect to see a lot of hyperemia. You also

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with an access. Sometimes you can see hyperemia. Sometimes

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you don't like to steal. You wouldn't expect

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hyperemia a galactic feeling and an abscess

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can both be a complex math with cystic and

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solid components as well as mastitis can

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also get some fluid from edema because

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there's not a ton of drainable fluid here. It looks like and then

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of course you're always concerned about invasive Dental carcinoma, which could if

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it was a product and a rapidly growing tumor it could

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have

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Focal areas of hypocal areas

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representing your president. So when we go to the differential

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diagnosis the most common things in a

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woman of this age and lactating is a galactophile acting

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and Noma and abscess or focal methods. So those are the most common

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yes breast cancer can occur. The percentage is

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low and that's why it's the least common. So it's

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important to always go to these first. Well keeping breast cancer

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in mind. And the reason you don't want to automatically jump to this is cancer. This

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is cancer is because biasing these patients is

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difficult. You can give them a mix milk insulin. What happens with the milk

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fistula is when you biopsy

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A mass in A lactating breath you can cause official

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between the milk ducts and

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the surface of the skin and what will happen is the skin the sorry the

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milk will take the path of least resistance. The

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nipple has a lot of resistance, right? If not the milk would just

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squirt out all the time, but it has some resistance to maintain their

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smooth erectile smooth muscle in the nipple to

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keep it.

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The milk in but there won't be any at your biopsy site.

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So the milk will go out the five official of

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the biopsy site and it won't cause the nipple and we'll

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happen is the patient will have to stop breastfeeding because

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the baby won't breastfeed anymore on that side because they won't be getting milk

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and eventually the milk will dry out.

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So you really want to think twice before biasing now,

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if you do have a high sufficient that this is one of those

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small percentage of pregnancy related breast cancers. What you

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want to do is you don't want to use your typical biopsy device.

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You don't want to use your typical 14 gauge spring

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loaded biopsy device or large four biopsy device. My recommendation

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is to do an FNA with

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a 21 gauge needle or less and what that'll tell

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you is are there malignant cells in here or not. If there

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are malignant cells in there, then you proceed to a probiosity because

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breastfeeding is the least of the patient's problems, right? If you get a

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milk fistula, it'll be worth it because the patient needs her breast cancer

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treat it but you hate to get someone to milk fistula if

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they have something benign like a galactic Seal A lactating

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on normal looks very different from this. It's usually circumscribed essentially

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it looks like an fibranoma. So you

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would hate to give someone a milk special and cause them to not be

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able to nurse for a very low percentage of breast cancer. So that's

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why you have a suspicion start with a small needle FNA

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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