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Case number:170
Age:74
Clinical presentation:Postmenopausal woman with history of left breast cancer and who had undergone left MRM is on annual surveillance. She also has high family risk because of breast carcinoma in a maternal cousin. On examination, no abnormality was detected in the right breast.


Mammography:





Mammography assessment:

Mammography features:
Breast composition:
 ‣ Location of the lesion:
   • Laterality:
   • Quadrant:
   • O'clock:  01:  02:  03:  04:  05:  06:
 07:  08:  09:  10:  11:  12:
 Central zone:
   • Zone:
 ‣ Mass:
   • Number:
   • Size:
   • Shape:
   • Margins:
   • Density:
 ‣ Calcifications:
   • Typically benign:
      ⁃ Skin:
      ⁃ Vascular:
      ⁃ Coarse or “popcorn-like”:
      ⁃ Large rod-like:
      ⁃ Round:
      ⁃ Rim:
      ⁃ Dystrophic:
      ⁃ Milk of calcium:
      ⁃ Suture:
   • Suspicious:
      ⁃ Amorphous:
      ⁃ Coarse heterogeneous:
      ⁃ Fine pleomorphic:
      ⁃ Fine linear or fine-linear branching:
   • Distribution:
      ⁃ Diffuse or scattered:
      ⁃ Regional:
      ⁃ Grouped or clustered:
      ⁃ Linear:
      ⁃ Segmental:
 ‣ Architectural distortion:
 ‣ Asymmetry:
 ‣ Intramammary node:
 ‣ Skin lesion:
 ‣ Solitary dilated duct:
 ‣ Associated features:
   • Skin retraction:
   • Post-operative skin retraction:
   • Skin thickening:
   • Nipple retraction:
   • Trabecular thickening:
   • Architectural distortion:
   • Calcifications:
   • Axillary lymphadenopathy:



Case summary:



BI-RADS:


Further assessment advised:




        
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