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Okay, these are images from another baseline screening mammogram. We'll
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see that this is really a theme of BI RADS 3 is that
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we're really wanting BI RADS 3 to almost always be on baseline exams.
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This is a 44 year old woman coming in for her first baseline screening
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mammogram. And we saw this mass in the upper outer
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right breast. When the patient comes back for additional imaging, we start
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with spot compression views to better evaluate that
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finding. So here's the CC spot view. This is the C view. And
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again, we see this finding. It's in the upper breast. Let me just
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show you the tomo here. We see this is on the CC view,
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but it looks like a circumscribed mass. It's a single mass. She doesn't
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have multiple masses in both breasts. And on the MLO view, we see
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the finding here. And we scroll through it on the tomosynthesis slices,
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which really gives us a much better view of the margin.
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We see here, this is an oval mass with circumscribed
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margins. We would then recommend doing an ultrasound. If we did not have
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an ultrasound correlate for this finding, this would be the third indication
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for a BI RADS 3 on mammogram. And that's a oval circumscribed mass
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on a baseline exam. However, we always wanna do a targeted ultrasound to
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see if we can, instead of giving this a BI RADS 3 and
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having that patient come back for those follow up exams at six months,
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12 months and 24 months, if instead we can clear this patient and
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say that actually this is a benign finding.
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In this case, we did a targeted ultrasound. We see this in the
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right breast, 11 o'clock position, five centimeters from the nipple. So
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that matches the location of this finding in the upper outer right breast
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that we saw on mammogram. And here we see this simple cyst.
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So that oval circumscribed mass on mammogram may have met criteria for a
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BI RADS 3, but we know that since it correlates to this benign finding on
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ultrasound, we can give this a BI RADS 2, instead.
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