Occult Breast Cancer with Axillary Involvment in Breast with Scattered Fibroglandular Densities – It Just May Not Appear as It Used to Do: Case Report

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Gustavo Machado Badan Ana Cristina Lessa Marcos Lessa Guilherme Novita Amanda Neves Machado

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Gustavo Machado Badan
Breast Imaging Service of Radiology Department, United Health Group Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil

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Occult breast cancer (OBC), which is defined as clinically recognizable axillary metastatic carcinoma from an undetectable primary breast tumor, occult from conventional breast cancer screening imaging methods. This case reveals an unexpected OBC in a patient with predominantly adipose breasts, with only a few scattered areas of fibroglandular density tissue (BI-RADS® breast composition B), in which the mammographic sensitivity is approximately 90% for the diagnosis of primary breast câncer.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Mon 02, Nov 2020
Accepted: Thu 03, Dec 2020
Published: Mon 21, Dec 2020

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© 2023 Gustavo Machado Badan. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.JSO.2020.05.04