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Screening & Evaluation of Findings in Breast Imaging - Case 10

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Case number 10 history is screening.

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Okay, and now because Health cases are

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always notoriously hard on projections on

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a PowerPoint. I provided you with some

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additional images.

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and to be extra kind a few extra images

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So now go to the question and I'll scroll back so that

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once the question pops up so you can continue to look.

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Good. Hold on sorry you guys

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go.

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75% of course heterogeneous. 25%

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said Lucent no one said large

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Rod like and no encyclomorphic. I'm not going to give you the answer yet.

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Because I want you to answer the next question.

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And I'm happy to go back to the images again.

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All right, and 50% of you said sexual

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carcinomian say to virus for okay

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and 50% skin counts. Let's go back to

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the case. So I want you to notice that the

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calcifications are about 12 o clock in the

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right breast here. They're very hard to see right. So

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remember I was doing you guys a favor

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by nagging those up because it's so hard to see and normally you can Max them

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up yourself, but you want to judge.

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If they're finer course based on the non-mags mammogram,

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right? So these are really hard to see so

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I wouldn't quite call these cores. I would think these are fine.

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Then we mad them and we see they're all different shapes. So

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I call these punctuation calcifications or

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shrapnil calcification and so punctuation calcifications.

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I call them that because if I look closely here

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and I think I like my next image even better down here. Okay.

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This looks like a parentheses.

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It's like a comma this looks like a period I think there's another comma here

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it looks like a colon. So it looks

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like you someone hit all the punctuation keys on the

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on the keyboards. And so

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that's multiple different shapes and that's

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the definition of cleomorphic.

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And I also call them shrapnel calcification

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because it almost looks like a bomb goes off.

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And so if a bomb explodes and shrapnel goes all over the place. It's

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in all different shapes and sizes. It's not uniform right and

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it's a bomb a good thing or a bad thing. It's bad thing, right?

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So that's why I remember this shrapnel calcifications all

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different sizes of strap. No bad dcis. Okay, so

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these are pleomorphic health education.

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And the their caused by usually high

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grade dcis with commute and necrosis and

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again necrosis when things are benign. They tend to

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push and grow very uniform and and look

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very symmetrics when things

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are malignant. There's infusion. There's necrosis. It's

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a regular rate. And so so that's

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what this is. So these would so I want

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to go over the answer. So these are not large Rod like calcifications right large

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Rod, like calcifications describe secretory

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calcifications, and

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they're usually emanating from the nipple. It's benign. It's caused by

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plasma cell messeitis and usually see

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them symmetric and again radiating from the nipple. We just talked

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about the amorphic loosen Center calcifications is

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a benign descriptor, right? So this is where you really need to know you're by

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Red.

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Loosen Center is a benign descriptor and these are those.

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Don't don't or Cheerio calcifications where they're

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around. They have a loosen Center. Usually if you

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do tangential views, you can localize them to the skin, of course

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heterogeneous. I know that is a confusing thing for plea

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Market calcification that actually have get done this case many times.

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I've actually never had the confusion from my participants before

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so now I'm going to learn to put another slide to show

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you guys. What a course at our genius calcification is in the answers so

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that we can learn about that but they're much

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easier to see much much easier to see and they almost look

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like developing popcorn calcifications. Okay, so

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definitely not it's fine. Feel more pick are more

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fine. Okay, so you but both leomorphic and

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chords heterogeneous are concerning descriptors, right? Whereas large

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like and lose it are benign descriptors.

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So this would be dcis which is a byrest for

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skin calcification would be those loosen Center

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and they would be a buyer ads too. Okay?

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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

Breast