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BI-RADS 4 – Linear NME, Left Breast

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So our next group of cases

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was categorized as BI-RADS 4.

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And our first case is a 65-year-old woman

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with a history of LCIS and atypia, so

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atypical ductal hyperplasia and atypical

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lobular hyperplasia in the left breast, and

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she's being seen for high-risk screening.

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So we're looking at the patient's MIP first, and

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you can see she has mild background parenchymal

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enhancements, some normal blood vessels, and

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there's sort of a prominent linear non-mass

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enhancement here in the left breast laterally.

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Okay.

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So we'll take another look at everything.

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So we're going to pull in her T1 non-FATSAT

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and her first subtracted image or series.

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And we can see that she has a lot

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of fibroglandular tissue, sort of

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heterogeneous to extreme, and she's

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had prior surgery and biopsies.

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So there's a biopsy clip artifact here in the

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left breast and also here in the left breast.

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And then she's had a post-surgical change

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here with a post-surgical collection.

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So that was at a biopsy site or

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excisional biopsy site for LCIS.

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And we can see that she has fairly mild

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background parenchymal enhancement.

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And as we're scrolling through, the most

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noticeable thing is just this linear non-mass

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enhancement here in the anterior left breast.

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It seems it's a little bit

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more than just this part.

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There's a little bit more to it

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going backwards or going posteriorly.

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You can see there kind of

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extends a little bit longer.

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And this was

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new or certainly more prominent

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compared to prior studies.

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So that was concerning.

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We also looked at the pre and post images.

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Sometimes that gives you a

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different look at this area.

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We can see that it's right at

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the edge of her tissue here.

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It really wasn't anything

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else on any of her images.

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And we went through every, every series.

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So this linear non-mass enhancement

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in a fairly high-risk person who

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has had prior episodes of atypia.

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We were concerned enough about this that we

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recommended an MRI-guided biopsy, which was

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done, and this was a lobular carcinoma in situ.

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So she returned to her surgeon for

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an additional excisional biopsy.

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So this was a BI-RADS 4.

Report

Description

Faculty

Lisa Ann Mullen, MD

Assistant Professor; Breast Imaging Fellowship Director

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Tags

Women's Health

Neoplastic

MRI

Breast

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