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Inflammatory breast carcinoma

Case contributed by Garth Kruger
Diagnosis certain

Presentation

Diagnostic workup of a large red swollen right breast.

Patient Data

Gender: Female
mammography

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.

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