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Spontaneously Disappearing Calcifications in the Breast: A Rare Instance Where a Decrease in Size on Mammogram Is Not Good

Spontaneously resolving breast calcification on mammography is a rare radiologic finding. This phenomenon is defined by a decrease in number and/or prominence of breast calcifications on mammogram when compared to prior imaging. The significance of resolving breast calcifications remains unclear, bu...

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Autores principales: Nguyen, Quan D, Nguyen, Nga T, Dixon, Linden, Posleman Monetto, Flavia E, Robinson, Angelica S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7377655/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32714691
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8753
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author Nguyen, Quan D
Nguyen, Nga T
Dixon, Linden
Posleman Monetto, Flavia E
Robinson, Angelica S
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description Spontaneously resolving breast calcification on mammography is a rare radiologic finding. This phenomenon is defined by a decrease in number and/or prominence of breast calcifications on mammogram when compared to prior imaging. The significance of resolving breast calcifications remains unclear, but they have been reported in cases of malignancy. In current literature, patients whose imaging illustrated a decrease in calcifications usually had other concomitant breast complaints. We are presenting a case of invasive ductal carcinoma, in which the patient was asymptomatic on physical examination. Spontaneously resolving breast calcification and lymphadenopathy were the only abnormal findings on screening mammogram.
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spelling pubmed-73776552020-07-24 Spontaneously Disappearing Calcifications in the Breast: A Rare Instance Where a Decrease in Size on Mammogram Is Not Good Nguyen, Quan D Nguyen, Nga T Dixon, Linden Posleman Monetto, Flavia E Robinson, Angelica S Cureus Preventive Medicine Spontaneously resolving breast calcification on mammography is a rare radiologic finding. This phenomenon is defined by a decrease in number and/or prominence of breast calcifications on mammogram when compared to prior imaging. The significance of resolving breast calcifications remains unclear, but they have been reported in cases of malignancy. In current literature, patients whose imaging illustrated a decrease in calcifications usually had other concomitant breast complaints. We are presenting a case of invasive ductal carcinoma, in which the patient was asymptomatic on physical examination. Spontaneously resolving breast calcification and lymphadenopathy were the only abnormal findings on screening mammogram. Cureus 2020-06-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7377655/ /pubmed/32714691 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8753 Text en Copyright © 2020, Nguyen et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Preventive Medicine
Nguyen, Quan D
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Dixon, Linden
Posleman Monetto, Flavia E
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Spontaneously Disappearing Calcifications in the Breast: A Rare Instance Where a Decrease in Size on Mammogram Is Not Good
title Spontaneously Disappearing Calcifications in the Breast: A Rare Instance Where a Decrease in Size on Mammogram Is Not Good
title_full Spontaneously Disappearing Calcifications in the Breast: A Rare Instance Where a Decrease in Size on Mammogram Is Not Good
title_fullStr Spontaneously Disappearing Calcifications in the Breast: A Rare Instance Where a Decrease in Size on Mammogram Is Not Good
title_full_unstemmed Spontaneously Disappearing Calcifications in the Breast: A Rare Instance Where a Decrease in Size on Mammogram Is Not Good
title_short Spontaneously Disappearing Calcifications in the Breast: A Rare Instance Where a Decrease in Size on Mammogram Is Not Good
title_sort spontaneously disappearing calcifications in the breast: a rare instance where a decrease in size on mammogram is not good
topic Preventive Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7377655/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32714691
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8753
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