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60-year-old woman for 6 month follow up of probably benign calcifications in right breast

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So our first case in this category is a 60-year-old

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woman for a six-month follow-up of probably

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benign calcifications in the right breast.

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So here's our patient, bilateral mammographic

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views from her baseline screening, and she

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was recalled at that time for evaluation of

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calcifications in the posterior right breast.

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So the area of interest was very far posterior.

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She has some other scattered calcifications,

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but the area for follow-up was this

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little group of calcifications.

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There are several calcifications almost

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forming a little circle there, and they're in

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the medial right breast, very far posterior.

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And this is where they were thought to be kind of

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overlying the pectoralis muscle on the other view.

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So our job was to follow these.

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Which we did, and this, the new

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magnification view, I would say this

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little group of calcifications is stable.

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Difficult to see these on the other view,

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but we thought it was probably here, right in here.

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They're so far posterior that it's,

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it's difficult to actually get images of them.

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But we felt that these were stable compared to

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the prior exam, and this fits into one of the

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BI-RADS three categories on mammography of the

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grouped round calcifications, and they're stable.

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And it's interesting that the patient is a

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postmenopausal older patient, but the previous

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six-month exam had been her baseline mammogram.

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So following up from a

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baseline mammogram, no change.

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We can continue to follow up.

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So our next follow-up would be in six months,

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and we would do a bilateral diagnostic

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mammogram for her with magnification views.

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Faculty

Lisa Ann Mullen, MD

Assistant Professor; Breast Imaging Fellowship Director

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Tags

Women's Health

Non-infectious Inflammatory

Mammography

Breast

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