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. |
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 |
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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