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59-year-old man with enlarging and painful left breast over 6 months

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Our next patient is a 59-year-old man with

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enlarging painful left breast for six months.

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So for this patient, we did a bilateral diagnostic

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mammogram and his problem was on the left side.

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So we can see that there's a large

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amount of tissue density on the left,

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really not very much on the right.

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And we can look at these images a

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little more closely with tomosynthesis.

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So here's the nipple on the left side, and then

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this tissue really looks almost like a female

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breast in this patient, but no mass or anything.

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There's just this tissue sort

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of centered behind the nipple.

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And this is, um, consistent with gynecomastia.

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So here's the MLO view and also

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the, uh, tomosynthesis images.

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This just looks like focal

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breast tissue, nothing else.

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And then we check the other side also.

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So here's the right side.

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And right tomosynthesis images.

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There may be a little bit of

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tissue behind that right nipple.

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Here's the CC view on the right and his nipple.

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Really maybe just a little bit of tissue there.

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And then this is his left breast ultrasound.

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So this is right under the nipple.

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There's a hypoechoic tissue extending

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into the surrounding tissue.

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And then we did a comparison

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of the right to the left.

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So there's a little bit on the right,

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but mostly it's on the left side.

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And interestingly, you know, the literature

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and appropriateness criteria say that you

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can, you know, if you do a mammogram and

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it looks like gynecomastia, you can stop,

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which is what we tried to do in this patient.

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We just called it gynecomastia.

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But then the referring provider said,

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"Yes, but there's a palpable lump."

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"I want an ultrasound."

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So the patient came back

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on a different day for the ultrasound,

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and it just showed gynecomastia.

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So I tend to do both exams for each patient.

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I do the diagnostic mammogram and the

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ultrasound, that way there's no question

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that we've left something undone.

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Faculty

Lisa Ann Mullen, MD

Assistant Professor; Breast Imaging Fellowship Director

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Tags

Ultrasound

Tomosynthesis

Non-infectious Inflammatory

Mammography

Male

Breast

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