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Click on the pictures to magnify and display the legends| Case number: | 151 |
| Age: | 56 |
| Clinical presentation: | Postmenopausal woman with increased risk of developing breast cancer presented for postoperative surveillance. She had undergone left breast-conserving surgery for invasive carcinoma and also has a family history of breast carcinoma. |
Mammography:
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| Breast composition: | ACR category a (the breasts are almost entirely fatty) | Mammography features: |
| ‣ Location of the lesion: | Left breast, upper outer quadrant at 2 o'clock, middle third and left axilla along surgical scar |
| ‣ Mass: | |
| • Number: | 0 |
| • Size: | None |
| • Shape: | None |
| • Margins: | None |
| • Density: | None |
| ‣ Calcifications: | |
| • Typically benign: | Eggshell, typically benign with lucent centres along surgical scar. Suture calcifications are also seen |
| • Suspicious: | None |
| • Distribution: | Dystrophic calcification and suture calcification seen at surgical scar in the left breast |
| ‣ Architectural distortion: | None |
| ‣ Asymmetry: | None |
| ‣ Intramammary node: | None |
| ‣ Skin lesion: | None |
| ‣ Solitary dilated duct: | None |
| ‣ Associated features: | None |
BI-RADS:
BI-RADS Category: 2 (benign)Case summary:
| Postmenopausal woman who had undergone breast-conserving surgery for left breast carcinoma 8 years earlier presented for regular postoperative surveillance. Diagnosed as left breast surgical scar with dystrophic calcification and typically benign suture calcifications, BI-RADS 2 on imaging. |
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