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Sonographically Unusual Breast Carcinomas, 2 Case Reports

BACKGROUND: For infiltrative breast lesions; sonography might not always be as helpful as mammography and MRI (magnetic resonance imaging). For higher sensitivity and specificity, these 3 imaging methods should be carried out together. Radiologists should be aware of the patient’s history and compla...

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Autores principales: Arslan, Gozde, Celik, Levent
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: International Scientific Literature, Inc. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5085334/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27822324
http://dx.doi.org/10.12659/PJR.897780
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: For infiltrative breast lesions; sonography might not always be as helpful as mammography and MRI (magnetic resonance imaging). For higher sensitivity and specificity, these 3 imaging methods should be carried out together. Radiologists should be aware of the patient’s history and complaints. Patients who have a specific history like a long-term drug treatment or a palpable tumour should be approached differently. CASE REPORT: We would like to present 2 cases with atypical sonographic findings. The first case is an infiltrative breast cancer with occult sonography findings in a patient with a history of a long-term immunosuppressive drug treatment due to kidney transplantation and the second case is a malignant breast tumour which is hyperechogenic on sonography. CONCLUSIONS: Overall breast sonography should always be correlated with mammography in patients over 40 years old and the images should be interpreted along with the patient’s history and clinical status.