A spiculated mass on a mammogram is highly suggestive of malignancy. We report the case of a 32-year-old woman with a radial sclerosing lesion that mimicked breast cancer on mammography. She visited her physician after palpating a lump in her left breast. Mammography showed architectural distortion in the upper inner quadrant of the left breast. Ultrasonography showed a low echoic area with an ...

sarcoidosis is rare (1, 2) and it usually shows similar radiological findings as for a breast carcinoma. The diagnosis is very difficult and tissue confirmation is necessary. Although a core needle biopsy may be helpful for diagnosis, an excisional biopsy may be needed occasionally (3, 4). We report here on a rare case of a breast sarcoidosis that presented as a primary manifestation of sarcoid...

Background: Evaluation of breast masses in women under 40 years old starts with a Triple Test Score (TTS) which is composed of clinical breast examination, mammography and fine needle aspiration. Increased breast density in this age group decreases the sensitivity of mammography. So deciding whether to biopsy such nondiagnostic lesions or not is subject to challenge. Breast masses up to 2mm cou...

Microglandular adenosis (MGA) is a rare benign disease that shows an infiltrative growth pattern of small glands, and it may progress to include atypia and carcinoma. Here we report two cases of breast carcinoma arising in MGA. Case 1 was a 44-year-old woman with a previous history of ductal carcinoma in situ in her right breast. During a follow-up, a 1.8 cm mass-like lesion was found in her le...

Abdsaleh, S 2006. Core Biopsy of Breast and Axillary Lesions: Technical and Clinical Aspects. 42 pp. Uppsala ISBN 91-506-1858-X The aims of this work were to image and analyze the needle behavior at automated core biopsy, to investigate the clinical utility of an alternative core biopsy technique using a semiautomated gun in breast and axillary lesions, and also to compare core biopsy with surg...

BACKGROUND Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided vacuum-assisted biopsy is the technique of choice for lesions that are visible only with breast MRI. The purpose of this study was to report our clinical experience with MRI-guided vacuum-assisted biopsy in Korean women. METHODS A total of 13 patients with 15 lesions for MRI-guided vacuum-assisted biopsy were prospectively entered into this s...

BACKGROUND Sentinel lymph node biopsy has been established as the preferred method for staging early breast cancer. A prior history of mastectomy is felt to be a contraindication. CASE PRESENTATION A patient with recurrent breast cancer in her skin flap was discovered to have positive axillary sentinel nodes by sentinel lymph node biopsy five years after mastectomy for ductal carcinoma in sit...

We report a case of nodular fasciitis of the breast mimicking malignant tumor. A 41-year-old female patient with a palpable mass in the upper center of the left breast present for 1 week visited our hospital. A mammogram showed an oval isodense with a partially indistinct margin. Ultrasonography demonstrated a hypoechoic mass, 8 × 11 mm in size. Breast cancer could not be excluded based on mamm...

Two women with breast carcinoma developed bilateral hilar adenopathy, with pulmonary infiltrate in one, during treatment for breast carcinoma. There was strong suspicion of metastatic disease from breast carcinoma. However, biopsy of a mediastinal node in first patient and transbronchial specimen biopsy in the second patient proved the diagnosis to be sarcoidosis. In one patient improvement was...

Background: The introduction of mammography with an accompanying interest for diagnosis and treatment in non-palpable breast lesions had led to the practice of non-resectional biopsy such as mammography guided core needle biopsy, US guided fine needle aspiration cytology and localization & excisional biopsy. The recent technique, ABBI system has made it possible to excise a lesion complelely un...