Breast Imaging - Pictorial Essay

Unusual malignant breast lesions: imaging-pathological correlations

10.4261/1305-3825.DIR.4454-11.2

  • Belgin Karan,
  • Ayşin Pourbagher,
  • Filiz Aka Bolat

Received Date: 11.04.2011 Accepted Date: 19.07.2011 Diagn Interv Radiol 2012;18(3):270-276

This pictorial essay presents the common radiological (mammography and/or ultrasonography) and pathological findings observed in unusual malignant breast lesions, which include well-differentiated subtypes of invasive ductal carcinoma not otherwise specified (tubular, mucinous, papillary, and medullary carcinomas), metaplastic carcinoma, and metastases. This study also includes unusual ultrasonographic appearances of a plasmacytoma.

Keywords: breast neoplasms , mammography , ultrasonography