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MR imaging of breast paraffinomas
1Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China.
AJR. American Journal of Roentgenology
|October 8, 1999
Abstract
Objective:
Our objective is to present the MR appearance of breast paraffinoma, a late complication of breast augmentation by liquid paraffin wax, and to correlate this appearance with the histopathologic findings that were available for three of the 11 breasts we studied.
Conclusion:
Breast paraffinomas have a characteristic MR appearance that correlates well with histopathologic findings. With MR imaging, we were able to visualize the location and extent of the paraffinoma, best seen on the fat-suppression sequence, and to evaluate the surrounding fibroglandular breast tissue.