Development of DCIS

Case contributed by Garth Kruger
Diagnosis certain

Presentation

Routine screening mammography right breast.

Patient Data

Age: 40
Gender: Female
mammography

Normal MLO view right breast 2009.

mammography

Very small group of calacifications just beginning to develop in 2010.

mammography

2013 mammography demonstrates the further development of a cluster of microcalcifications. 

Case Discussion

Histologically confirmed DCIS right breast. "Timelapse" mammography to show the subtle development in the right breast 2009-13. The case is complicated by the background of benign lobular calcifications in the breast parenchyma.

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