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next case a 66 year old female presents
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for Baseline mammogram
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This is her mlo.
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This is her CC.
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I'm gonna give you a minute to just look at this. This is
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like her ml.
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and her CC
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So based on the screening examination, what
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is the appropriate by Reds?
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Okay good. So the finding
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here is really unilateral acts are
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lymphatinopathy.
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so that is never a normal finding this is
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really breast cancer until proven otherwise
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So really, you know, and then she also has these
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two masses that you can see that are asymmetric to
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the left.
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So you certainly would want to give her a buy red zero we
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need more information for sure.
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Okay, I answered
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this already. So I'm not gonna open the poll but the most likely causes this
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finding is in fun is um, sorry metastatic breast cancer when
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you have unilateral ax sorry lymphatinum the you want
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to make sure that it's not you need to
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exclude breast cancer.
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what is this Imaging modality many
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of you may not have seen this before my residents
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definitely have
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so is it digital breast homosynthesis MRI contrast
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enhancy or none of the above? I'm
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sorry. I'm freezing.
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Good. So this is a contrast enhance me immigrant. If you've never seen
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it, these are actually the subtraction images from a contrast
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enhance me and room. I don't know how much they ask you on the boards, but
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it's definitely fair game. So if you never seen it, this is what
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it looks like. So findings are suspicious for
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now read this carefully. Let's say
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that these are both cancer. Is it multi-focal multi-centric
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contralateral or
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inflammatory breast cancer?
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Sorry, I'm going to move this box. So we're not just curing
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the findings.
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Okay.
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Good. So this is multicentric breast
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cancer. They're in different quadrants multifocals when
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they're in the same quadrant and multicentric is when they're in
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different quadrants. So this would definitely be multicentric so
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you can see she's got in a regular speculated mass
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at 3 o'clock. She has another ill-defined mass
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in the right breast at 10 o'clock. So another quadrant and she
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also has what looks to be an abnormal lymph node.
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What is your bi Reds for this?
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I answered that quickly but this is going to be a four or
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five, you know, you're certainly suspicious you would at least want to buy it
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see one of the masses and the lymph node, but ideally
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you'd like to biopsy all three. We typically
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don't do more than two in the same day, but not for any other reason
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that insurance isn't pay for it and patients can't often
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tolerate three biopsies, but certainly that's in this appropriate thing to
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do.
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This is suspicious for multi-centric metastatic breast
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cancer. We ended up by seeing on the same
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day. We did that this the regular mass and the
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right acts are node. But the one in ten o'clock was also breast cancer.
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So you definitely want to give it a screening and you know,
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it's really important to know are they screening are they diagnostic? Because
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if this was a diagnostic you can give it a four but
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if this is screening you want to give it a zero, you need more information
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unilateral axillary lymphatin up
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these metastatic breast cancer until proven. Otherwise, if you
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don't see I had a case recently where she had unilateral excellentopathy
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nothing that I could see on me Mo, but we
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brought her back for a survey breast ultrasound and of course, we found a
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little cancer hiding and it ended up being metastatic
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breast cancer. So you got to find that you've got
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to find that cancer.
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If you don't see it on Old survey ultrasound then
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you want to do an MRI and you'd also biopsy the lymph node,
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make sure that it's not something else because other things from the task size to the excellent
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as well.
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Most likely cause is metastatic
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breast cancer. This is a contrast mammogram. These
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are the low dose subtraction images from contrast.
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This is suspicious for multicentric breast
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cancer as we talked about.
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So multicentric involves more than one quadrant.
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multifocal involves two masses in one quadrant
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synchronous means two tumors diagnosed within
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six months of each other
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antagonist means two tumors diagnose greater
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than six months apart from each other.