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51-year-old woman recalled for developing asymmetry in right breast

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Our next patient is a 51-year-old woman who

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was recalled from screening for evaluation

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of an asymmetry in the right breast.

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So, this is the screening mammogram for this

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patient, um, bilateral CC and MLO views.

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And the area that was recalled

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as an asymmetry was this area in the,

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um, posterior lateral right breast.

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And you can see it here in the,

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um, upper breast on the MLO view.

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And that had been developing or was

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new compared to the previous exams.

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So we went ahead and did our standard evaluation,

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which was the CCN MLO spot views and lateral view.

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Show you this in a larger form.

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There was another mass here more anteriorly,

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but that had been stable for a long time.

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So here's our spot compression in the

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CC projection, you can see that area is still

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sort of vaguely visible there, and then

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we did a 3D tomosynthesis, and you can see

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that we have the asymmetry that persists.

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This was the MLO view, we still have

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that asymmetry, and when we look with

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our tomosynthesis spot, it's still there.

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And then we also did a lateral view.

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So here's our lateral view, this was the

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stable mass more interiorly, and then

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we had this other little asymmetry here.

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On our tomosynthesis image,

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there was a persistent asymmetry.

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So we thought there was enough here that

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we might be able to see it on ultrasound, so we

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went ahead and looked with ultrasound and we

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searched and searched and we had just normal

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looking tissue, but we weren't able to find

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an area that was a good correlate for the

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mammogram finding, but the mammogram finding

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was real and we felt that it was a developing

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asymmetry and We recommended a biopsy for this.

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So we coded this as bioreds category four

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and recommended a mammogram-guided biopsy.

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So we went ahead and did that and

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that showed invasive ductal carcinoma

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with ductal carcinoma in situ.

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So it's important to realize that for a

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developing asymmetry, there's still a need to

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biopsy even if there's no ultrasound correlate.

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Faculty

Lisa Ann Mullen, MD

Assistant Professor; Breast Imaging Fellowship Director

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Tags

Women's Health

Ultrasound

Tomosynthesis

Neoplastic

Mammography

Breast

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