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61-year-old woman with history of left breast DCIS 10 years ago. Annual follow up

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The next case is a 61-year-old woman with

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a history of left breast DCIS 10 years ago,

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and she's presenting for annual follow-up.

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So these are the routine views for this patient.

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She's had a lumpectomy on the left,

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she's had excisional biopsy on the

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right, so her scars are marked.

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She's had biopsies bilaterally,

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so there are biopsy clips in both breasts.

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And what caught my eye here on the

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left MLO view were these little areas

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of asymmetry in the lower breast.

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Her lumpectomy was in the upper breast.

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So we looked through these areas with

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tomosynthesis and it did look like indeed there

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were some asymmetries, maybe masses there,

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and those were new compared to a previous exam.

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We did some extra work with spot

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compression, you know, it definitely

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looks like there were two masses there.

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We thought on the CC view that

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these were probably lateral.

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Here's her lumpectomy site.

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It's a little hard to see them.

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I think maybe one of them is visible here.

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Did a spot compression CC trying to find them.

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I think we see one here.

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She went from just an easy

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follow-up the lumpectomy site to.

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You know, a search for additional

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masses that she hadn't had before.

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This was her lateral view, and

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we definitely thought there was

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something here and probably here.

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And we had similar views from the prior

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study that definitely didn't show this.

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You can see the distortion at her lumpectomy site.

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You know, there's her scar marker,

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that interrupted line on the skin,

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and then there's, you know, underlying

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distortion at the lumpectomy site.

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So this is really a different part of the breast.

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So we went ahead and looked with ultrasound,

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and we found one mass that was sort of mixed

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echotexture, hypoechoic and hyperechoic.

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At the three o'clock position.

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And then this at the four o'clock position, there

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was an echogenic mass with some blood flow in it.

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So these two areas were recommended for

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biopsy and both had similar pathology.

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It was invasive mammary carcinoma

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with ductile and lobular features.

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So she previously had had only

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a ductile carcinoma in situ.

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These were actually invasive cancers.

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So this was a recurrence in the same breast.

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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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