Post-operative breast seroma
Diagnosis almost certain
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Follow up seromapost-operative breast ultrasound image
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This is the typical appearance of a mature seroma. Once they develop the almost nodular margins (just next to the letter "C" anteriorly) on ultrasound they usually are stable. Initially they look just like fat necrosis but the fat necrosis is not usually seen with such a thick capsule. The differentiation with an abscess is there inis no surrounding edema and on dopplerDoppler these lesions do not light up.
-<p>This is the typical appearance of a mature seroma. Once they develop the almost nodular margins (just next to the letter "C" anteriorly) on ultrasound they usually are stable. Initially they look just like fat necrosis but the fat necrosis is not usually seen with such a thick capsule. The differentiation with an abscess is there in no surrounding edema and on doppler these lesions do not light up.</p>- +<p>This is the typical appearance of a mature seroma. Once they develop the almost nodular margins (just next to the letter "C" anteriorly) on ultrasound they usually are stable. Initially they look just like fat necrosis but the fat necrosis is not usually seen with such a thick capsule. The differentiation with an abscess is there is no surrounding edema and on Doppler these lesions do not light up.</p>
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Breast
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A well defined hypoechoic lesion in a surgical scar.
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