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BI-RADS 3 – Changing Pattern of Background

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Our next case is a 34-year-old

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woman for high-risk screening.

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This was her baseline MRI, and she had

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a history of right breast biopsy and a

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strong family history of breast cancer.

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So to start with, this is the patient's

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MIP, and this is a case we saw earlier

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in this Mastery Series, but I think

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it's a good example of, uh, BI-RADS 3.

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So she has asymmetric background

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parenchymal enhancement, lots of

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enhancement here on the right side,

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less on the left, but the enhancement she

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has on the left is a little bit more focal.

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And

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we're going to pull in her T1 and

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her first post-contrast images.

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So she has heterogeneous

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or extremely fibroglandular tissue.

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She's had a biopsy on the right, so you see the

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susceptibility artifact from her biopsy clip.

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And then you can see all this enhancement

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here, mostly on the right side.

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And in her case, we felt that since this

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was a baseline and the enhancement looked

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like it might be, um, mostly at the edges of

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her tissue, kind of a very typical pattern

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of background parenchymal enhancement,

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we elected to do a six-month follow-up.

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And mostly that was because this

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wasn't symmetric bilaterally.

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And she did have some more focal

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enhancement here on the left.

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So we considered this to be BI-RADS 3, and

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we saw her in six months, at which time the

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enhancement had almost completely resolved.

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Faculty

Lisa Ann Mullen, MD

Assistant Professor; Breast Imaging Fellowship Director

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Tags

Women's Health

MRI

Breast

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