Tattoo Pigment in an Intramammary Lymph Node Mimicking Breast Malignancy

There are many patterns of microcalcification in mammography. Distinguishing between these patterns can be challenging. A malignant cause needs to be assessed through further diagnostic workup. We present a case of a 36-year-old BRCA1 mutation carrier, presenting with a small mass containing calcifi...

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Autores principales: Jung, Jayda, Peters, Gesine, Donovan, Shaun, Peters, Gudrun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Pathology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9663708/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36407269
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.30336
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author Jung, Jayda
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Peters, Gudrun
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description There are many patterns of microcalcification in mammography. Distinguishing between these patterns can be challenging. A malignant cause needs to be assessed through further diagnostic workup. We present a case of a 36-year-old BRCA1 mutation carrier, presenting with a small mass containing calcification on her screening mammogram. A vacuum-assisted biopsy under tomosynthesis guidance was performed and demonstrated an intramammary lymph node showing prominent extracellular black pigment. To our knowledge, this is the first case report of tattoo pigment mimicking breast malignancy on mammography.
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spelling pubmed-96637082022-11-17 Tattoo Pigment in an Intramammary Lymph Node Mimicking Breast Malignancy Jung, Jayda Peters, Gesine Donovan, Shaun Peters, Gudrun Cureus Pathology There are many patterns of microcalcification in mammography. Distinguishing between these patterns can be challenging. A malignant cause needs to be assessed through further diagnostic workup. We present a case of a 36-year-old BRCA1 mutation carrier, presenting with a small mass containing calcification on her screening mammogram. A vacuum-assisted biopsy under tomosynthesis guidance was performed and demonstrated an intramammary lymph node showing prominent extracellular black pigment. To our knowledge, this is the first case report of tattoo pigment mimicking breast malignancy on mammography. Cureus 2022-10-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9663708/ /pubmed/36407269 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.30336 Text en Copyright © 2022, Jung et al. https://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.
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title_sort tattoo pigment in an intramammary lymph node mimicking breast malignancy
topic Pathology
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