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Breast MRI Case 13

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So let's just finish up with our last case here.

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This patient here.

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This...

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History on this lady is that she's

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a 36-year-old woman, newly diagnosed inflammatory breast cancer.

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So you'll get another look at inflammatory breast cancer.

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And again,

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looking at the diffuse skin thickening and marked diffuse enhancement,

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and I think we'll start with the gadolinium-enhanced stage.

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I'll scroll through this while we...

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it does its thing.

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And what I want you to look at is the chest wall.

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Okay?

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This is our comparative case to the other one, looking at the chest wall, so.

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We want to look at pectoralis, and we want to look at the chest wall in this case.

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Let me window that up a little bit more

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So, up at the top here.

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And then I'm just going to show you, on her...

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This is her subtraction image.

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And I can show you the sagittal as well.

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And sagittal image,

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and the sagittals are really helpful I found for looking for chest wall invasion.

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This is a sagittal recon.

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For some reason, the original sagittal has vanished off packs.

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And that shows it. All right, let's have the question.

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You see, she got a ton of nodes up

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in the axilla, really ugly looking.

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Not a good cancer.

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Everybody got it. All the four people who managed to hang on till the end

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got it.

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So what we're seeing here is this really

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extensive enhancement going all the way through the chest wall.

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You can see the enhancement in the skin here in the posterior breast tissue,

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but then it's going through pectoralis

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and it's in to the intercostal musculature itself.

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The...

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Let me show you on the...

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And we can see a big chunky met sitting right here.

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So this one is chest-wall invasion.

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So you can have abutting pectoralis, invading pectoralis, or through pectoralis

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and into the intercostal, which makes it inoperable.

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Okay, so those to all my cases.

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I'm sorry, I did run over a little bit.

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All right. Well, thank you everybody for attending.

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Thank you for the people who hung in till the end.

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You are good souls.

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And I hope to speak to you again some other session.

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Faculty

Petra J Lewis, MBBS

Professor of Radiology and OBGYN

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center & Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Tags

MRI

Implants

Breast

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