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So what I'm going to do while those are loading,
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is I'm going to show you a fun case that I have
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just on the PowerPoint series and that went with the implants.
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This is a patient who is 80-odd woman.
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She's status post left mastectomy, and she had a saline implant
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put in and then has new deformity of her left breast site
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as you can see here.
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And so these are T2 fat suppressed images.
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I'm just going to talk you through this.
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And you can see that with a saline implant,
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which you certainly do not need any imaging to diagnose.
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Everything just collapses into a big hole.
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So if you want to know what linguine sign is for silicon, it looks like this.
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Only with silicon rather than the T2 bright.
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As part of this study, she also was fat...
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We gave gadolinium. I don't know why they gave gadolinium as an outside study.
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They just didn't know what was going on with her,
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and they wanted to sort of look at the implant, but look for recurrence.
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They found an occult 1cm enhancing mass
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on the gadolinium.
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And here it is on the ultrasound.
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And obviously, this is a sort of classical
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malignancy with a spiculated borders hypoechoic shadowing,
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and this echogenic halo.
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And this was an invasive ductal carcinoma recurrence in this patient.
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