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MR Elastography now at Star Imaging, Bund Garden. MRE assesses the entire liver and detects fibrosis at an earlier stage than any other imaging method.

Medical Cases

September 2014

Dr. Varshaa Hardas, Dr. Sanjay Desai

Star Imaging and Research Centre Medical case list

HISTORY

  • 67 year old lady with a history of a lump in the right breast
  • No other clinical complaints
  • FNAC done with results positive for IDC
  • Outside Mammography: DBP, not very informative
  • Sent for Digital Tomosynthesis and USG Abdomen/Pelvis to assess liver

FINDING & CONCLUSION

  • Mammography revealed a irregular solid lesion in the right breast upper quadrant with mild architectural distortion
  • Mild spiculations also noted
  • No foci of abnormal microcalcifications noted
  • Few foci of scattered benign macrocalcifications noted
  • In drawing of the right nipple noted, suggesting retroareolar extension of the disease
  • Right axillary nodes noted
  • Vascular calcifications noted bilaterally
  • Modeartely dense breast parenchyma bilaterally
  • No abnormal lesion in the left breast
  • BI-RADS VI–RIGHT BREAST
  • Large solid lesion in the right periareolar region extending from 12 to 2 o’ clock, with irregular margin and some internal vascularity
  • Extension in the retroareolar region also noted
  • Lesion measures 2.6 x 2.3 x 1.3cm
  • Small BI-RADS III lesion in left breast noted of 7mm at 10 o’ clock position. Strain value suggest benign nature
  • Elastography strain values is 5, also suggestive of malignant neoplastic etiology
  • Heterogeneous liver echotexture with no focal lesions
  • Large solid lesion in the cervix suspicious for neoplastic etiology
  • This lesion had moderate vascularity
  • Enlarged heterogeneous uterus with a focal echogenic bright leiomyoma in the fundus
  • Ovaries not well seen. Endometrium was normal
  • Multiple Para-aortic lymphadenopathy was noted. Largest was 2.8cm
  • No ascites
  • Large solid lesion in the cervix with moderate vascularity of 3.7 x 2.8cm size
  • Enlarged bulky heterogenous uterus with focal intramural bright echogenic lipo-leiomyoma in the fundus of 3.2 x 2.5cm size
  • Ovaries were not well seen
  • Normal endometrium with indentation from the leiomyoma
  • Based on these usg findings furthur evaluation with CT abdomen and pelvis was advised
  • Biopsy of the cervical lesion was also suggested
  • Slightly bulky uterus showing heterogeneous enhancing mass lesion involving the uterine cervix-likely to be neoplastic
  • A well-defined lesion in relation to (most likely within) the left side of the uterine fundus with soft tissue and fat could represent a lipoleiomyoma
  • Multiple enlarged retroperitoneal (from the level of superior mesenteric artery upto the aortic bifurcation), bilateral common & internal iliac and retrocrural lymph nodes
  • Patient underwent TRU_CUT core biopsy of breast and cervical lesion
  • Breast – Invasive ductal carcinoma grade II
  • Carvix – Adenocarcinoma

SYNCHRONOUS DUAL PRIMARY MALIGNANCIES–BREAST & CERVIX

  • Breast and Ovarian synchronous carcinomas are known to occur
  • The synchronous occurrence of carcinoma of the uterine cervix and the breast is a rarity
  • No definite link has been established between the two
  • OCP use increases the incidence of both cancers but not necessarily together
  • Occurrence of Lipo-Leiomyoma is also rare

SYNCHRONOUS DUAL PRIMARY MALIGNANCIES –BREAST & CERVIX

  • AGARWAL RASHI. Synchronous dual malignancy: Successfully treated cases. Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics, Vol. 3, No. 3, July-September, 2007, pp. 153-156
  • Verstovsek S et al. Synchronous primary cancers of the breast and cervix: planning multidisciplinary primary treatment [clinico-pathological conference]. Am J Clin Oncol.2000 Feb;23(1):99-103
  • Sharma DN. Synchronous occurrence of carcinoma of the uterine cervix and of the breast . European Journal of Surgical Oncology Volume 25, Issue 5, Pages547–548, October 1999 
  • Prieto A, Crespo C, Pardo A et-al. Uterine lipoleiomyomas: US and CT findings. Abdom Imaging. 25 (6): 655-7
  • Tsushima Y, Kita T, Yamamoto K. Uterine lipoleiomyoma: MRI, CT and ultrasonographic findings. Br J Radiol. 1997;70 (838): 1068-70