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Ultrasonographic features of spontaneous breast tumor infarction

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Abstract

Background

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the ultrasonographic features of spontaneous breast tumor infarction.

Methods

The pathologic information system database of the Department of Radiology was retrospectively searched. Between 2009 and 2011, nine cases in eight patients were pathologically confirmed as spontaneous breast tumor infarctions. Mammographic images and the ultrasonographic images were acquired. Two other radiologists analyzed the mammographic and ultrasonographic findings.

Results

Most common features were oval, indistinct, heterogeneously hypoechoic mass with posterior enhancement. All lesions were classified as C4 (suspicious finding) except one case.

Conclusion

Spontaneous breast tumor infarction should be included in the differential diagnoses of hetereogeneously hypoechoic suspicious solid lesions mimicking malignancy.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Seoul St. Mary’ Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 505 Banpo-dong, Seocho-Gu, Seoul, 137-701, Korea

    Hyeon Jeong Oh, Sung Hun Kim & Bong Joo Kang

  2. Department of Hospital Pathology, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

    A. Won Lee

  3. Department of Surgery, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

    Byung Joo Song

  4. Department of Radiology, St. Paul’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

    Hyen Sook Kim

  5. School of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea

    Eun Suk Cha

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Oh, H.J., Kim, S.H., Kang, B.J. et al. Ultrasonographic features of spontaneous breast tumor infarction. Breast Cancer 22, 596–601 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12282-014-0525-3

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