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Breast Imaging Overview Case 6

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All right. This is a different patient. This was

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an 80 year old male represented with a right breast, Mass.

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and

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his left breast is all

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you know, he's got bilateral. So what causes this

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appearance?

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I'm gonna come out see a breast cancer both or neither.

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Oops, I'm sorry. That was yeah. So so

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it actually they're correct

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answer is actually see so one person got it. Right and I want

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I'm showing you this because I think this is a great place of

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on the left. Sorry on the

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left. He's got gynego massia. He's got that flame

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shapes retro or density, but on the right, he's

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got a true math where you know, there are real borders. You

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can it's not a symmetry.

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It's more of a mass. So when it's a mass you definitely want to

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do an ultrasound so I you know, we'll talk a little bit more about gynecomastia and

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ultrasound but this is

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actually both because the right side is breast cancer and the left

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side is kind of a mess. Yeah. So I'm Gonna Save the

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question just for sake of time but you're by

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red. I mean this is not going to go math. Yeah. I

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mean it could be but you definitely would like to buy it see it. So in

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this case you really want to give it a four kind of a nasty.

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It does not look this math like it can and like the nodular phase,

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but you

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Really want to confirm this with the biopsy. This was a case of

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male breast cancer.

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So this would be a birads four or five.

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So like I said, this is kind of a messiah. This

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is a birets too. This is bilateral. It's

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right breast cancer and left breast gynecomastia. This

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is definitely a four or five

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so

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In terms of Imaging for for males,

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you always want to start if

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they're over age 25 you want to start with

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a Mamo? A mammo is

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usually the most Diagnostic Imaging modality for

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gynecomastia ultrasound can be really confusing. So

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I don't always do an ultrasound. I do an ultrasound if

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it's not a hundred percent gynecomastia on

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mammogram, but the ultrasound picture might be more confusing. So,

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you know in that second case

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where it was breast cancer, you definitely want to do an ultrasound because it certainly

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does not look like an eagle Mass yet. But if it's gynecomastia on

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mammogram stop don't do anything else. It's by Reds

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to next case nothing else to do.

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The difference is between gynecomastia. Gynecomastia is

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usually bilateral but asymmetric, so there's usually one side

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that's worse than the other usually see sub-areolar flame

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shaped densities. Like I said, the mammo is

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usually diagnostic ultrasound can often be confusing and as

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opposed to breast cancer. So breast cancer is usually unilateral. You're

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gonna see a math with true borders ultrasound

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is necessary. If the mammo is

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not diagnostic, which it should not be in breast cancer cases.

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It's because it's not gynecomastia.

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Um causes of gynecomastia. So most commonly, it's

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just idiopathic. We always like to make jokes about

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you know, drugs cause it like marijuana prostate cancer

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meds anything that really messes with your estrogen estrogen

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and testosterone levels will cause

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there to be a that can

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cause extra estrogen can cause gynecomastia so

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liver disease testicular adrenal disease

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and also male breast cancer causes can

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cause gynecomastia on the other side because of the hormone.

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So male breast cancer accounts for one person of

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all breast cancers most are going to be invasive ductal men

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don't have lobuil so they don't get invasive labular

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cancer. They also don't get benign masses

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like cyst or Fiber adenomas if you see something and it's not

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going to go messy. You're probably gonna buy it yet unless it's clearly like an

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instrument lymph node or something like that and male tend

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to have a worse prognosis and certainly when a male

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gets breast cancer. Their whole family is going to be genetic tested because it's unusual.

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I've always seen a few cases.

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Faculty

Robyn G Roth, MD

Women's Imaging Fellowship Director, Assistant Professor of Radiology

Cooper University Hospital

Tags

Ultrasound

Mammography

Male

Breast