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Circumscribed Breast Fibroadenoma on MRI

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So I'm going to shift gears here

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This is a tough topic because there's

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And that's because in order to show

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that there is between a zero and 2% chance

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a lot of cases in the study and we just

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But I am going to go over

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of evidence and expert opinion to support

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But this is also really an evolving topic

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years that we'll have larger studies

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what findings we should

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But I think we'll also be moving towards

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often as we can to really limit the number

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due to the cost and the logistics

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But with that being said,

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This is the first finding that...

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There's agreement that fit criteria

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And it is a long kind of a theme

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and this is that oval circumscribed mass.

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So I'm starting off by showing a MIP MRI

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image and I like looking at these MIP

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because it kind of gives a lay of the land

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And right away we see this mass

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at the MIP, we don't know if it's upper or

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We like to use the subtraction view

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So here's our first run subtraction.

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We typically do three post-contrast

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This is the first of those

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post-contrast images and it's

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So the only things that are bright

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there's contrast in them

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And here is this mass

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It's in the upper inner left breast.

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It is homogeneously enhancing,

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it has an oval shape

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And this is very typical

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similar to what we saw

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This is that oval circumscribed mass

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this could be an appropriate BI-RADS 3.

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We do need to check a few other things

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before we can conclude that this

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So first is we want to look at the T2.

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We want there to be a T2.

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We want it to be hyperintense on the T2 series.

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So here is that finding on the T2 and we

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So that is also consistent

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And then we like...

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we want to look at the kinetics

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and make sure that the

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This is a MIP of the kinetics.

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We see that finding here

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That's Type 1 persistent kinetics,

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that's suggestive of a more benign

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So this does fit criteria

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We could do a six-month follow-up MRI.

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But sometimes we'll also recommend,

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we'll recommend that we do a second

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And if we can see the finding

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on ultrasound, then we can follow

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And that's going to be a lot more

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comfortable for the patient, a lot less

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It's also helpful because we have much

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larger data to support the use

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So if the finding meets all of those

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we feel very comfortable

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an ultrasound correlate, if we can't see

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ultrasound, then we would do a six-month

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And similar to mammogram and ultrasound,

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we would want to show stability at 6

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with an optional additional

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to show that this finding is not changing.

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we could change the BI-RADS to a BI-RADS 2,

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if we feel that it's changed in a way

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or if it's increasing in size or changing

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we could change to a BI-RADS 4

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Faculty

Emily B. Ambinder, MD

Assistant Professor - Breast Imaging Division

The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins Medicine

Tags

Women's Health

Neoplastic

MRI

Breast