Open AccessRadiological evaluation of primary breast sarcoidosis presenting as bilateral breast lesions
Author(s) -
Jorge Reis,
João Boavida,
Marianne Lyngra,
Jonn Terje Geitung
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
bmj case reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.231
H-Index - 26
ISSN - 1757-790X
DOI - 10.1136/bcr-2019-229591
Subject(s) - medicine , sarcoidosis , radiological weapon , malignancy , differential diagnosis , radiology , mammography , biopsy , breast disease , left breast , pathology , breast cancer , cancer
Sarcoidosis is an idiopathic multisystemic inflammatory disease that may exceptionally involve the breast and can have imaging features suspicious for benign or malignant lesions. Biopsy should be required to distinguish between breast sarcoidosis and malignancy, because clinical, mammographic and sonographic findings can be ambiguous or inconclusive. This case discusses the radiological manifestations and the value of different diagnostic features, and names the most relevant differential diagnosis.