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Screening & Evaluation of Findings in Breast Imaging - Case 4

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So 58 year old male with

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HIV and a palpable left breast, Mass.

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Here's the images.

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And the mass is marked with a palpable BB right here.

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Just this is that this every every institution that's something

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different the institution. I was at when I found these images it

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was a BB marker some places use a

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triangle. But in this case, it's a BB.

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So this is the first set of images.

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This is another set of images.

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And this is the ultrasound.

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of the left palpable area

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All right.

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We can go to the question.

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And I'll scroll back to I guess you can

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scroll back to the mammogram to show to keep it on the screen for those

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that want to take a second. Look bilateral gynecomastia,

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very good, correct. So we see

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that there is retro aerial or flame shapes tissue and

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the BB is right on the flame

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shape tissue. It's really important.

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That if the baby is not on the gynecomastia that

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you don't say the pebble was caused by

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Gonic Massy if the BB is not on gynecomastia and the

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guy make directly undergone capacity. You have to investigate it further. So

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normally what you what what I do man. If a

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patient is over 25 is going to come after you start with a mammogram

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and really going to come out to the mammographic diagnosis and

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you don't have to do the ultrasound. You want to just thought this helpful

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area which we did to make sure there's no underlying mass and there isn't

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and right the scary thing about going to come Matthew is it looks irregular it's

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flame shapes, but it's retroare if

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you want to make sure it's Central to the nipple. If it's ever

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eccentric then you're concerned for a mass and on

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ultrasound. You see there's some breast tissue right behind the

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nipple consistent with gynecomastia of corresponding to

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the palpable.

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And I answered this accidentally was ultrasound necessary.

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Let's see if you listen to me.

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And go to 100% of you. Listen to me that ultrasound is

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not necessary.

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So bilateral again for Nastia. This guy the hint was

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in the history he had HIV and

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so if someone has a known

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diagnosis of HIV, they're usually on HIV medication and so

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causes bilateral Gonic gynecomastia are HIV

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medications antiretrovirals. Lots of

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other medications. I metadine anabolic steroids

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for lactone are also causes. Another

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thing is anything that increases the

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estrogen in a man system such as

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cirrhosis and liver failure marijuana. It's a

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big one. Actually. It's a big thing when I see teenage boys that they

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get very I tell them they smoking marijuana

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can cause it. It's a very easy way to get them to stop

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smoking and then very rarely breast cancer.

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This is on the official differential diagnosis. I've never seen this bilateral

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breast cancer and Men is almost always done a

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command. Yeah.

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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