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74-year-old woman recalled for architectural distortion in left breast

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So our next patient is a 74-year-old woman,

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recalled from screening mammography for evaluation

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of architectural distortion in the left breast.

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So for this patient, this was her

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screening mammogram, and we were concerned

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about architectural distortion in the

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left breast, left upper outer breast.

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And this is pretty subtle and kind of

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confounded by the fact that there's a calcified

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artery kind of running right on top of it.

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But the 3D really helped here, and we thought

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that right in here, there was some distortion

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of the tissue, where the tissue was pulled in.

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There's our artery, and it was

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kind of right in this spot.

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And on the MLO (mediolateral oblique) view, we thought

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it was kind of up in this area.

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So very far lateral, but up in that spot.

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So, when the patient came back,

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we did some additional imaging, including

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spot compression in the CC plane.

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Here's the spot compression CC (craniocaudal),

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and this is the tomosynthesis image.

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Still looks like there's some

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lines coming into a central point.

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This distortion is really pretty

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subtle, but it's right in there.

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And then we did an MLO spot.

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Thinking that it was probably in this area,

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felt like it was in this, in this area.

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And then we also did a lateral view.

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We thought the distortion was right in here.

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So we recommended a tomosynthesis-guided biopsy

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from a lateral approach, and that was performed.

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And this was an invasive lobular carcinoma.

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So very subtle, but it was actually a cancer.

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Faculty

Lisa Ann Mullen, MD

Assistant Professor; Breast Imaging Fellowship Director

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Tags

Women's Health

Tomosynthesis

Neoplastic

Mammography

Breast

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