Case report: Haemangioma of the breast — Appearances on mammography and ultrasound

Webb, L.A.; Young, Jonathan R.

doi:10.1016/s0009-9260(96)80198-x

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“…4 High-resolution sonography may show a mixed appearance, with multiple small hypoechoic areas corresponding to multiple cavities separated by thin echogenic septa. 3,4 In contrast, malignant vascular lesions usually have irregular and blurred margins. In our patient, high-resolution sonography confirmed the existence of a hypoechoic nodule with well-circumscribed margins and no associated macrocalcifications.…”

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Cavernous hemangioma of the breast: Mammographic and sonographic findings and follow‐up in a patient receiving hormone‐replacement therapy

Mesurolle

Wexler

Halwani

et al. 2003

J of Clinical Ultrasound

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We report the case of a 78-year-old woman who had been receiving hormone-replacement therapy (HRT) for 6 years and had a 4-month history of a painless nodule in the 9 o'clock position in her right breast. Mammography performed 4 years previously had shown a 4-mm bilobed, ovoid, well-defined nodule in that location; mammography performed 1 year previously had shown that the nodule had increased to 6 mm. We performed mammographic and sonographic examinations, which revealed a 10-mm ovoid nodule in the same 9 o'clock position in the right breast. The imaging findings appeared to indicate benignity, but because of the increasing size of the nodule, we undertook an ultrasound-guided large-core needle biopsy. The histopathologic diagnosis was typical cavernous hemangioma. It was not excised, but HRT was discontinued. Follow-up mammography and sonography 8 months later showed that the nodule had decreased to 6 mm. We believe that the HRT played a contributory role in the increasing size of this patient's cavernous hemangioma. The use of ultrasound-guided large-core needle biopsy is reliable enough to ascertain the benignity of such masses and can thus avoid, if it is clinically appropriate, the need for their surgical removal.

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Cavernous hemangioma of the breast: Mammographic and sonographic findings and follow‐up in a patient receiving hormone‐replacement therapy

Mesurolle

Wexler

Halwani

et al. 2003

J of Clinical Ultrasound

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“…It is an oval or polylobed pseudonodular mass, and US appearance depends on the caliber of the blood vessels. Capillary hemangiomas are largely homogeneously hyperechoic and cavernous hemangiomas present a mixed echotexture [34,35]. Both have a soft texture and can easily be compressed by probe pressure.…”

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Benign breast lesions: Ultrasound

Masciadri

Ferranti

2011

Journal of Ultrasound

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KEYWORDSBreast; Ultrasound; Benign breast lesions.Abstract Benign breast diseases constitute a heterogeneous group of lesions arising in the mammary epithelium or in other mammary tissues, and they may also be linked to vascular, inflammatory or traumatic pathologies. Most lesions found in women consulting a physician are benign. Ultrasound (US) diagnostic criteria indicating a benign lesion are described as well as US findings in the most frequent benign breast lesions.Sommario Le lesioni mammarie benigne costituiscono un gruppo eterogeneo di manifestazioni, sia proprie dell'epitelio mammario, sia con origine dagli altri tessuti che costituiscono l'organo, sia con altra patogenesi (vascolare, flogistica e traumatica). Esse costituiscono il reperto più frequente che si osserva nella maggior parte dei casi nei quali una donna pensa di avere un problema al seno e si rivolge al medico o al radiologo. Vengono riproposti da un punto di vista ecografico i criteri diagnostici che orientano per la benignità ed i quadri iconografici che si riscontrano nelle principali lesioni mammarie benigne ecograficamente identificabili. ª

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“…L'aspect mammographique classique de l'hémangiome est une opacité bien limitée, lobulée et siège de microcalcifications fines [11,12]. Un aspect mal limité et spiculé est égale-ment possible posant le diagnostic différentiel avec un authentique carcinome mammaire [7].…”

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“…La sémiologie échographique des hémangiomes du sein n'est que peu étudiée et ne semble pas univoque : la tumeur peut apparaître bien limitée et hypoéchogène [11] ou à l'inverse hyperéchogène et mal limitée [8,13].…”

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