A case of fat necrosis after breast quadrantectomy in which preoperative diagnosis was enabled by MRI with fat suppression technique
✍ Scribed by Hiroto Iwasaki; Ken Morimoto; Masae Koh; Terue Okamura; Kenichi Wakasa; Tomoko Wakasa; Hiroaki Kinoshita
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 566 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0730-725X
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✦ Synopsis
A 63-year-old woman was found to have a left breast mass after quadrantectomy and radiation for bilateral breast cancer on postoperative cyclic examination. Intramammary recurrence could not be excluded by physical examination, mammography, or ultrasound examination. MR imaging with fat suppression technique revealed an oil-containing lesion, indicating fat necrosis. It was confirmed histologically that the mass-forming lesion included no cancer tissue. MR imaging with fat suppression technique appears to be a promising method for identification of postoperative mass lesions of the breast.