Presentation
Diagnostic workup of a large red swollen right breast.
Patient Data
Gender: Female
From the case:
Inflammatory breast carcinoma
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The breast is diffusely dense with extensive skin thickening throughout.
Scattered benign breast calcifications.
Case Discussion
It can be difficult to distinguish inflammatory breast cancer from mastitis on imaging; in practice the mastitis breast patient is in so much pain you can hardly touch the breast by the time it looks like this.