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This is a companion piece to the last case.

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Another baseline screening mammogram: woman, age 40,

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and similar to the last case, we saw an oval mass.

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This is in the upper outer left breast.

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So, also like the last case,

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this was given a BI-RADS 0.

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We had the patient come back for additional

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images, specifically spot compression images.

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And again, we see that mass

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in the outer breast on the CC

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view, and

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we see it here on the tomosynthesis.

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Like the last case, this would be

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criteria for a BI-RADS 3 on mammogram.

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We see an oval circumscribed

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mass on a baseline mammogram.

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We're going to do a targeted ultrasound

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examination to see if we can potentially

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give this a BI-RADS 2 instead.

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And in this case, we did a targeted ultrasound.

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Again, this was the outer

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breast, slightly upper breast.

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So this is the two-thirty position, four centimeters

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from the nipple that matches the location.

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And we see this oval circumscribed mass.

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But this is a very typical appearance of a

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benign finding of an intramammary lymph node.

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See, most of the finding has this

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echogenicity that matches the surrounding fat.

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We see vascularity within that fatty

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hilum, a very thin hypoechoic cortex.

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This is a common finding in intramammary lymph nodes.

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We know this is a benign finding,

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and therefore, we can give this entire case

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a BI-RADS 2 rather than a BI-RADS 3.

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Description

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

Ultrasound

Tomosynthesis

Mammography

Idiopathic

Breast

Acquired/Developmental