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Non-puerperal mastitis masking pre-existing breast malignancy: importance of follow-up imaging
Mastitis is an inflammatory condition of the breast with common symptoms of pain, swelling, erythema, warmth, and fever. Diagnosis of mastitis is easily made on the basis of typical symptoms and ultrasonographic findings, such as diffusely increased echogenicity of the parenchyma and subcutaneous fa...
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Korean Society of Ultrasound in Medicine
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4825209/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26169080 http://dx.doi.org/10.14366/usg.15024 |
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author | An, Jin Kyung Woo, Jeong Joo Lee, Seung A |
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description | Mastitis is an inflammatory condition of the breast with common symptoms of pain, swelling, erythema, warmth, and fever. Diagnosis of mastitis is easily made on the basis of typical symptoms and ultrasonographic findings, such as diffusely increased echogenicity of the parenchyma and subcutaneous fat, or skin thickening. However, when it occurs in women middle-aged or older, associated malignancy should be considered. In our cases, we detected irregular hypoechoic malignant masses after the disappearance of inflammatory changes. Therefore, when non-puerperal women have inflammatory signs on their breast, follow-up imaging should be performed. In particular, in the case of persistent or growing palpability after the recovery of breast inflammation, percutaneous core biopsy and short-term follow-up with ultrasonography should be considered to exclude the associated malignancy. |
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spelling | pubmed-48252092016-04-11 Non-puerperal mastitis masking pre-existing breast malignancy: importance of follow-up imaging An, Jin Kyung Woo, Jeong Joo Lee, Seung A Ultrasonography Case Report Mastitis is an inflammatory condition of the breast with common symptoms of pain, swelling, erythema, warmth, and fever. Diagnosis of mastitis is easily made on the basis of typical symptoms and ultrasonographic findings, such as diffusely increased echogenicity of the parenchyma and subcutaneous fat, or skin thickening. However, when it occurs in women middle-aged or older, associated malignancy should be considered. In our cases, we detected irregular hypoechoic malignant masses after the disappearance of inflammatory changes. Therefore, when non-puerperal women have inflammatory signs on their breast, follow-up imaging should be performed. In particular, in the case of persistent or growing palpability after the recovery of breast inflammation, percutaneous core biopsy and short-term follow-up with ultrasonography should be considered to exclude the associated malignancy. Korean Society of Ultrasound in Medicine 2016-04 2015-06-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4825209/ /pubmed/26169080 http://dx.doi.org/10.14366/usg.15024 Text en Copyright © 2016 Korean Society of Ultrasound in Medicine (KSUM) This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report An, Jin Kyung Woo, Jeong Joo Lee, Seung A Non-puerperal mastitis masking pre-existing breast malignancy: importance of follow-up imaging |
title | Non-puerperal mastitis masking pre-existing breast malignancy: importance of follow-up imaging |
title_full | Non-puerperal mastitis masking pre-existing breast malignancy: importance of follow-up imaging |
title_fullStr | Non-puerperal mastitis masking pre-existing breast malignancy: importance of follow-up imaging |
title_full_unstemmed | Non-puerperal mastitis masking pre-existing breast malignancy: importance of follow-up imaging |
title_short | Non-puerperal mastitis masking pre-existing breast malignancy: importance of follow-up imaging |
title_sort | non-puerperal mastitis masking pre-existing breast malignancy: importance of follow-up imaging |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4825209/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26169080 http://dx.doi.org/10.14366/usg.15024 |
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