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Case Report
The full breast ultrasonography usefulness in the diagnosis of a bicentric breast cancer – An anatomical imaging approach correlated with the pathological findings: A case report
1 Pan Med Laboratories, No 9 Calea Bucuresti Street, Bl. U1, Craiova, Dolj, Romania
2 Prima Medical Med Life, Calea Bucuresti Street, No 99, Craiova, Dolj, Romania; Former senior radiologist at the Emergency County Clinical Hospital in Craiova, Dolj, Romania
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Article ID: 101243Z01AC2021
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Colan-Georges A. The full breast ultrasonography usefulness in the diagnosis of a bicentric breast cancer – An anatomical imaging approach correlated with the pathological findings: A case report. Int J Case Rep Images 2021;12:101243Z01AC2021.ABSTRACT
Introduction: The classification of multiple, simultaneous, ipsilateral breast cancer after localization in arbitrarily delimited quadrants, according to BI-RADS criteria, is in disagreement with pathological and cytogenetic investigations and with the evolution of the disease. This classification is related to the non-anatomical examination in two standard mammographic projections, including tomosynthesis, and to the non-anatomical orthogonal scanning in the classical ultrasonography and magnetic resonance imaging of the breasts.
Case Report: We illustrate a case of a 69-year-old woman with multicentric breast cancer detected and characterized by a non-invasive technique of diagnosis, based on the triad: anatomical ductal radial and antiradial breast ultrasound, Doppler study and strain sonoelastography, briefly named the full breast ultrasonography.
Conclusion: The complete technique of ultrasonography has the advantages of high availability, low costs, standardization of scanning and reporting, and especially a detailed imaging illustration of the breast anatomical normal and abnormal structures correlated with the pathological findings.
Keywords: Breast cancer, Multicentric cancer, Multifocal cancer, Strain sonoelastography, Ultrasonography
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The author thanks the managers of affiliated private institutions who provided the valuable equipment and offered ongoing encouragement for the conduct of scientific research that was completed through this study.
Author ContributionsAristida Colan-Georges - Substantial contributions to conception and design, Acquisition of data, Analysis of data, Interpretation of data, Drafting the article, Revising it critically for important intellectual content, Final approval of the version to be published
Guarantor of SubmissionThe corresponding author is the guarantor of submission.
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