Open AccessLocalized Breast Amyloidosis
Author(s) -
Ebru Yılmaz,
Ayhan Yılmaz,
İbrahim İnan,
Özgecan Gündoğar,
Neşe Uçar,
Ülkü Tuba Parlakkılıç,
Ahmet Aslan,
Elife Kımıloğlu
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
meme sağlığı dergisi/meme sağlığı dergisi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1306-0953
pISSN - 1306-0945
DOI - 10.5152/ejbh.2018.4104
Subject(s) - amyloidosis , medicine , malignancy , pathological , differential diagnosis , magnetic resonance imaging , pathology , fat necrosis , rare disease , breast disease , mammography , radiology , disease , breast cancer , cancer
Localized amyloidosis in the breast is a very rare disease and may mimic malignant lesions. A 60-year-old woman who had a history of breast-conserving surgery presents with a new a well-defined oval opacity accompanied by many round tight clustered micro- and macrocalcifications on mammograms. It could not be visualized sonographically due to the intense posterior acoustic shadowing of the fat necrosis areas and contrast enhancement was not detected in this area on the dynamic contrast enhanced magnetic resonance images. At pathological examination breast amyloidosis was detected. Amyloidosis of the breast is a rare disease, but it can mimic malignancy and should be included in the differential diagnosis.
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