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Case number:175
Age:66
Clinical presentation:Postmenopausal woman with average risk of developing breast cancer presented with a right breast lump first noticed 4 years ago with progressive increase in size since then. On examination, a hard non-tender lump (5 × 5 cm) was palpable in the right breast below the nipple–areolar complex. It was not fixed to the chest wall or skin and was fixed to the breast parenchyma. The right nipple was retracted. The left breast was unremarkable. A hard mobile lymph node (3 × 4 cm) was also palpable in the right axilla in a central group of axillary nodes.



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:



Ultrasound:




Ultrasound assessment:

 ‣ Location of the lesion:
   • Laterality:
   • Quadrant:
   • O'clock:  01:  02:  03:  04:  05:  06:
 07:  08:  09:  10:  11:  12:
 ‣ Mass:
   • Number:
   • Size:
   • Shape:
   • Orientation:
 ‣ Margins:
   • Circumscribed:
   • Indistinct:
   • Angular:
   • Microlobulated:
   • Spiculated:
   • None:
 ‣ Echo pattern:
 ‣ Posterior features:
 ‣ Calcifications:
 ‣ Associated features:
   • Architectural distortion:
   • Duct changes:
   • Skin changes:
      ⁃ Skin thickening:
      ⁃ Skin retraction:
   • Oedema:
   • Vascularity:
      ⁃ Internal vascularity:
      ⁃ Vessels in rim:
 ‣ Special case:



Case summary:



BI-RADS:


Further assessment advised:




        
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