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So case number seven 56 year old female presents for
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screening mammogram.
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So here is her CC.
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And her mlau view and I'm going to point
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out the abnormality, which I really think was an amazing
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call. I barely saw it. But the person that was
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reading in a saw and asymmetry in the CC view
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here. They didn't know where it was.
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And really the point here is what?
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So you're gonna give it a buyer at zero, but my question to you
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is what Imaging. Can you get if
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you see this asymmetry on a cc View?
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In addition to spot compression. What can you do to
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figure out where it is in the breast already know right now is it's
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in the lateral breast and we're not entirely sure if
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it persists. I think it persists there.
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So if you see something on the CC view, but not the envelope you
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what views are you going to get?
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And it rules true lateral tomasynthesis or
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combination of the two.
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Good. I'm happy that it's all over the place. So.
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So the answer when you see something on a cc
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but not the mlo.
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The real answer is rolled and I
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think that you know, it's homo synthesis is kind of getting a way
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of role getting rid of old views,
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but I still think there is a role for them. But in this case
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you could do rolled or tomosynthesis. So either would be
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correct but really A and C is the most correct. Okay. So
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this is a question for you. So, you
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know, it's in the lateral breasts and neither what roles
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you look like if you've never actually seen one in practice.
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The technologists have to get World medial and
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role lateral views and what they're telling you is which
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way they're rolling the superior breath. So
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in this case the role in the superior breast medially and
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the lesion rules laterally, okay,
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it went from here to here.
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And in this case the rolling Superior breath laterally
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and it moves medially like we're seeing it
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better now within the tissue.
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So just thinking in
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your head so we know it's in the outer breasts and now is it in
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the upper outer or the lower outer breast and rolls
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away from the superior breath.
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So what clock positions are you going to have the tech scan?
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So it's telling you it's in the lower outer quadrant
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because it's rolling opposite of the superior breast
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if it rolled with the superior breast, you know, it's in the superior
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breath. So in this case, it's in the lower outer because
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it's well you roll the superior breast medially. It rolls laterally
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and vice versa.
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So we know it's in the lower outer breath. So in the right lower
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outer breath, it's going to be six o'clock to nine o'clock.
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And there you can see at eight o'clock.
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There isn't a regular hypochoic Mass. That's suspicious.
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It's gonna be a virus for and this
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ended up being an invasive ductal carcinoma and
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dcis. You can see that it's Erp
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our positive her to negative. That's usually the most
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common type of cancer that we get.
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Um, so just wanted you know this this diagram
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which we're going to lose when we go when we when we show
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this image, but this is
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a great diagram and it's really if you don't understand this concept
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take a few minutes to sit and digest it. But basically the
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tech is going to roll the test the superior breath medially
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and laterally and you're going to see if the lesion moves with it or away from
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it. They must indicate which way they're rolling the breast
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Um, and so like I said, if it rolls with it
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is in the superior breath if it rolls opposite, it's in the inferior
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breath and you're going to do the you're going to do roll to use
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on.
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If you see a lesion on the CC view, but not the ml.
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Okay.
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Um, so what do you do if you feel these on the mllo,
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but not the CC and this is the opposite. So
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and when you get it, if you see something on the mllo,
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you're gonna get a true lateral view to see if it drops
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or if it rises.
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And and you're going to do ml better for lateral
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lesions or LM is better for medial lesions. It's
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named from the direction of the
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tubes that it detector. And this helps
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you tell where it is on the CC View and this is a
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great diagram that's going to show you what lesions
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do so if you have some in the CC view,
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I'm sorry. If you haven't on the ml view if it's
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in the medial breath, it's going to rise so muffins rise
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on the true lateral view as opposed to if it's
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in the lateral view, it's in the lateral breast. It's going to fall on
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the true lateral View.
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So muffins rise lead Falls, that's a
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great way to remember it. So if it's a medial it's going to rise if it's
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not if it's in the lateral breast it's going to fall on the
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ml View.
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So medial lesions go up from the ml to
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mlo to ml and lateral lesions go down from the
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amalo to ml.
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So again, if you don't understand that concept take
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a few minutes and just kind of think about that in your head. I promise
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it will make sense.
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So just to give you an example, this is
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a five radenoma. We don't we know exactly where it is. But
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this is the CCU the mlo you and
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the ML and you could see that it rises from the
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mlo to the ml so it's in the medial
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breath. So if you didn't know where something was it would tell you where it
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is.
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So this is a good example of it
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in real life.
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So exaggerated views are some other types of images that
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you can get. If you need to see more
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lateral or medial tissue xccl means
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you're going to pull the it means exaggerated laterally you're
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going to pull the lateral breast tissue out further. That's something
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that's in the lateral View and you want to see it better opposite
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is xccm. You're gonna exaggerated immediately
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if you want to see the more medial breath tissue,