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77-year-old man with painful palpable lump in right subareolar breast

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So our next patient is a 77-year-old

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man with a painful palpable

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lump in the right subareolar breast.

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For this patient, we did

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bilateral mammograms, CC (Craniocaudal), and MLO (Mediolateral Oblique).

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We marked the area of palpable concern on

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the right breast with a triangle, and we

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can just zoom in and take a look at that.

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It looks like he has some breast

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tissue here behind the nipple.

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And we'll look at it with

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tomosynthesis images as well.

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So breast tissue extending

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backward from the nipple.

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This would be more of that dendritic appearance.

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And then we had the CC view as

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well with tomosynthesis images.

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It just looks like breast tissue.

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So of course we always do both sides.

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So we had the left CC view really

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just fatty tissue behind the nipple.

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That looks fine.

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You know, there's often a little

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bit of tissue on the opposite side.

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So that looks okay.

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And then we get to the left MLO view and

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all of a sudden we have something else.

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So there's a dense mass

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overlying the pectoralis muscle.

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In the left breast, completely unexpected

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and not the area of interest to the patient.

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We looked through this with the tomosynthesis

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imaging, and you can see that there's a pretty

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dense mass there overlying the pectoralis muscle.

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So we went ahead and did an ultrasound, and

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this is that mass overlying the pectoralis

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muscle in the left lateral breast.

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So a 2.

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5-centimeter mass.

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With a lot of internal vascularity.

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And, you know, we weren't too worried about

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the gynecomastia on the right, but now

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we're more worried about this mass that was

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incidentally discovered in the left breast.

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So this was recommended for ultrasound

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guided biopsy, and that was performed,

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and this was a B-cell lymphoma.

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The patient did not carry a diagnosis of

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lymphoma; this was a new diagnosis, uh, focal

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lymphoma in the left breast in a male patient.

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So not all gynecomastia is just gynecomastia,

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and it's always good to look at both sides.

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Faculty

Lisa Ann Mullen, MD

Assistant Professor; Breast Imaging Fellowship Director

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Tags

Ultrasound

Tomosynthesis

Neoplastic

Mammography

Male

Breast

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