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Breast Review Flashcards

1
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What structures comprise the TDLU?

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Terminal Duct Lobule Unit - Lobule is the exocrine gland

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What does MQSA of 1998 stand for and mean?

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Mamo. Quality Standard Act. Applies to docs, physicists, rads technologists

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ACS guidelines for breast screening?

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Qyear at age 40

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ACS guidelines for breast BSE and CBE

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CBE should be done at 20-39 q3 years. BSE should be taught about BSE and limitations but can start at 20yo.

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What is screening mamo for?

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Healthy adult with no symptoms of BC

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What is a diagnostic mamo for?

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Done under supervision of radiologist for patient with signs or symptoms related to breast. Lump, focal, discharge, etc.

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What is the sens/spec of mammography for detection?

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Sens 80-90, spec 80-95%

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What are the two standard views?

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MLO, CC

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What are 8 special views, additionally?

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Spot compression, mag views, true lateral, axillary tail, cleaavage view, rolled, exaggerated CC, implant displaced.

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How old should a comparison mammo study be?

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2 years old! Because good to evaluate slow growing tumors.

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Indications for BUS?

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solid/cystic? biopsy planning. Evaluation of mass in woman under 30 years old. Staging.

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What is ultrasound NOT good for detecting?

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Calcifications

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What two nuclear medicine studies detect breast cancer?

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Tc-99m sestamibi, FDG PET

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Four methods for getting samples of a breast lesion?

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CNB, needle loc with surg bx, FNA, surgical excision of palpable mass.

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What are the indications for a CNB?

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Birads 5 and 4, and 3 if patient is anxious.

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BIRADS

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0 - needs additional imaging
1 - negative
2 - Benign - stable mass, cyst, calcs, 0% chance of malig
3 - Probably benign - round calcs, 90% chance
4 - Suspicious abnormality - 2%-90% chance of malig (35% biopsy positive)
5 - Highly suggestive of malig - >90% chance (99% biopsy positive)
6 - Known active malignancy

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What are the three terms used to describe a mass in BIRADS lexicon?

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Shape, Margin, density

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What are the three most common palpable masses?

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Fibroadenoma (young), cyst, carcinoma (older)

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Lexicon words to describe benign lesions?

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Round, oval, macrolobulated, circumscribed margin, radiolucent, or low dencity.

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Lexicon words to describe malignant lesions?

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Irregular mass shape, spiculated margin, high density, architectural distortion, enlargement over time

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List a differential for a well defined mass

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Cyst, fibroadenoma, phylloides, carcinoma, mets, papilloma, hematoma, hamartoma, lipoma, lymph node (intramammary), abcess, oil cyst, galactocele.

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List a differential for a ill defined mass

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Carcinoma, abcess, hematoma, radial scar, fibrocystic change, myoblastoma

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List a differential for a lucent lesions

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lymph node, lipoma, hamartoma, oil cyst, galactocele

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What are DIRECT signs of malignancy?

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Mass, spiculated, malignant calcs, assymetry, neodensity, architectural distortion

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What are INDIRECT signs of malignancy?

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Architectural distortion, skin thickening, nipple retration, lymphadenopathy, breast edema

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What is “taller than wide” a sign of?

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Bad sign

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27
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BUS sign of cystic lesion?

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Anechoic, parallel orientation, increase through transmission

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BUS sign of fibroadenoma?

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Oval or macrolobulated, parallel, circumscried, iso/hypo echoic

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BUS sign of carcinoma?

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Irregular, spiculated, hypoechoic, NONPARALLEL

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30
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What are the stages of enhancement on MRI?

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Type1a: persistent (likely benign), Type1b: bowing (typically benign), Type2: plateau (intermediate), Type 3: washout (bad sign)

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31
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What type of cancer only enhances 50% of the time?

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DCIS

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32
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What calcifications are typically benign?

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Diffuse/scattered, large, popcornlike, rodlike, smooth, round, stable

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What calcifications are typically malignant?

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Grouped/clustered, linear, micro (<0.5mm), pleomorphic/heterogeneous, increasing in number

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34
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What are ductal casts?

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Can be a sign of malignany - these are necrotic debris or secretions that calcify in the ducts. They cand be sandlie or granular

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35
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What are two lesions that are almost always associated with calcifications?

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DCIS and IDC

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36
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What causes PLEOMORPHIC or HETEROGENOUS calcs?

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DCIS, fibrocystic change, fibroadenoma, papilloma

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What causes AMORPHOUS calcs?

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DCIS, fibrocystic change, sclerosing adenitis

38
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What causes LINEAR BRANCHING calcs?

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DCIS, VASCULAR, secretory

39
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What causes LUCENT calcifications

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fat necrosis, skin cals

40
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What does a vascular calcification look like?

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Tram-track

41
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Appearance of fibroadenoma calc?

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Popcornlike

42
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Appearance of fibrocystic change calc?

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scattered round or amorphous

43
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Appearance of oil cyst calc?

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lucent centereed

44
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Appearance of plasma cell mastitis?

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needle like calcs along orientation of ducts

45
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Appearance of vascular calc?

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tram tracks

46
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Appearance of artifactual calcs of deodorant, talc?

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distribution

47
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Appearance of silicone, or foreign body calcs?

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bizarre…

48
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Milk of magnesium calcs?

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Looks like tea cups on laterals and pearls on CC.

49
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What can cause benign skin thickening?

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Inadequate compression, irradiation or surgery, mastitis, cardiac failure, renal failure, liver or hypoalbuminemia, Mondor’s disease, SVC thrombus

50
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What can cause malignant thickening?

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Locally advanced cancer, recurrent cancer, lymph obstruction, inflammatory breast cancer

51
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What can cause a dialted duct?

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Obstruction: DCIS, papilloma, adenoma, debris, duct ectasia

52
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Risk factors for developing breast cancer?

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Female, family history, previous BC, early menarche and late menopause, nulliparity, BRCA, prior radiation therapy

53
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What are the histologic types of breast cancer?

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Invasive ductal (65), DCIS (15), invasic lobular (10), medullary (3), mucinous (3), tubular (1), phyloides, pagets, inflammatory, papillary.

54
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Keys for ductal carcinoma

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could be palpable or discrete, usually spiculated in mammo

55
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Keys for lobular carcinoma

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Usually spiculated, usually mammographically occult, which is bad!

56
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Keys for inflammatory carcinoma

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Red swollen painful, peau d’orange.

57
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Keys for phylloides tumor

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Usually 70 or older, can be round, circumscribed, and look like fibroadenoma, BUT you have to be very suspicious in an old woman.

58
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Keys for Paget’s disease of the breast

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Thickening of the nipple, can look normal

59
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TNM staging

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0: DCIS (nearly 100% survival)
I: Invasive tumor less than 2cm, no nodes. (96% survival)
II: Invasive tumor less than 5cm, not fixed to chest wall and w/wo local nodes (81% survival)
III: Invasive tumor of any size, fixed to chest wall, with nodes, but NO distant (52% survival)
IV: Distant mets (18% survival)

60
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What is the most prognostic factor in patients with primary breast cancer?

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Axillary nodes

61
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Levels of lymph nodes related to what muscle

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All in relation to pec minor

62
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What are the levels?

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I is lateral, II is over the muscle, III is medial to the muscle

63
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Does ER positive status portend favorable or bad outcome?

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Better outcome

64
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What does a Halstead radical remove?

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All breast tissue, pect major/minor, all lymph nodes

65
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What does a modified radical remove?

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Everything that the Halstead does minus the musclulature.

66
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What does the total (simple) remove?

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Modified minus the nodes

67
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What does a subcutaneous mastectomy remove?

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removal of most of the tissue but preservation of nipple, etc.

68
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What is the difference between LCIS and DCIS?

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LCIS is being debated to whether it is the precursor to ICS. Whereas 35% of DCIS progresses.

69
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What is a cause of bloody discharge?

70
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How could you try to diagnose this?

71
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What does a radial scar look like radiographically?

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Usually spiculated, may have black star (central lucency) appearance, whereas malignancy usually looks like a white star.

72
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Are radial scars associated with cancers?

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Yes. Tubular carcinoma. There is often atypia associated so excision is recommended.

73
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How does a simple breast cyst develop?

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Dilation of the TDLU!

74
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What gives the appearace of a breast within a breast?

75
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What appears well circumscribed and entirely radiolucent?

76
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What cystic lesion is caused by a sudden cessation of breast feeding?

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galactocele

77
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What is Mondor’s disease?

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Superficial thrombophlebitis of the veins of the breast.

78
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What does fibrocystic change look like?

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Mammo: increased glandular tissue, microcalcifications that are scattered or milk of calcium.

79
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What does fibrcystic change look like on US?

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macrocysts or microcyst <3 mm.

80
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What would an abnormal lymph node look like?

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dense, not fatty hilum.

81
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When is nipple discharge worrysome?

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Blood or serous.

82
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When is nipple discharge not worrysome?

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Bilateral, brown, green, milky

83
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What is a study that’s useful for evaluating discharge?

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Galactogram (ductogram)

84
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What are the two types of rupture?

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Intracapsular, extracapsular

85
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How does a breast react to an implant?

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Fibrous capsule

86
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What is the best method for evaluating breast implant rupture?

87
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What is the linguine sign?

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Lines in an implant may represent collapse of the capsule

88
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What are radial folds?

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NORMAL reduntant retaining capsule

89
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What do crenelated margins indicate?

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capsular contracture

90
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What does a focal bulge in implant represent?

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Possible herniation through a defect in the fibrous capsule

91
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Breast density categories

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Fatty, scattered, heterogenous, dense

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