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35-year-old woman with right bloody nipple discharge

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Our next patient is a 35-year-old woman

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with right bloody nipple discharge.

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So, this patient elected to have a 2D mammogram.

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We have bilateral CC views at the

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top of the screen, bilateral MLO

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views at the bottom of the screen.

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Because this patient is over 35, we started

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with a mammogram, and we can see that

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there are some calcifications here in

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the right lateral breast and right upper

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breast, nothing obvious on the other sides.

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We're just going to look a

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little more closely at this.

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So here's the right breast.

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There's some segmental calcifications

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here going toward the nipple.

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So here's the magnification

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view in the CC projection.

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And you can see all of these calcifications,

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kind of some coarse heterogeneous

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calcifications, some more amorphous

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calcifications in a segmental distribution,

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kind of going all the way up to the nipple.

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And then on the MLO view,

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you can see them again here.

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And we did a lateral magnification

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view, which is right here.

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You can see those calcifications

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pretty tightly grouped there.

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And then a couple of calcifications

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extending into the nipple.

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Um, so the calcifications alone are suspicious.

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And we went ahead and did an

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ultrasound as well for this patient.

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So here's the ultrasound that was performed.

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Here's her nipple, and right away we started

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seeing a duct with some echogenic flecks within

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it, which are the calcifications inside the duct

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tissues, very heterogeneous, but there were a lot

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of these calcifications were visible, no obvious

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mass, just the calcifications and the tissue was

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a little bit hypoechoic throughout that area.

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We also looked at, um, lymph nodes,

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which we thought were normal.

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But the interesting part of this was just.

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the ability to actually follow that duct

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and see the calcifications within it.

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Um, so for this patient, we thought we could

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see these calcifications best on the mammogram.

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So we recommended a stereotactic or a mammogram

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guided biopsy of those calcifications.

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And, um, this was ductal carcinoma in situ.

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And the process was extensive enough

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that the patient ended up opting

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to have a mastectomy for treatment.

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Faculty

Lisa Ann Mullen, MD

Assistant Professor; Breast Imaging Fellowship Director

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Tags

Women's Health

Ultrasound

Neoplastic

Mammography

Breast

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