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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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Autores principales: An, Jin Kyung, Woo, Jeong Joo, Lee, Seung A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society of Ultrasound in Medicine 2016
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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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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.
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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
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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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