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A case of fat necrosis after breast quadrantectomy in which preoperative diagnosis was enabled by MRI with fat
Hiroto Iwasaki1, Ken Morimoto, Masae Koh
1Second Department of Surgery, Osaka City University Medical School, Osaka, Japan.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
|March 11, 2004
Abstract:
A 63-year-old woman was found to have a left breast mass after quadrantectomy and radiation for bilateral breast cancer on postoperative cyclic examination. Intramammary recurrence could not be excluded by physical examination, mammography, or ultrasound examination. MR imaging with fat suppression technique revealed an oil-containing lesion, indicating fat necrosis. It was confirmed histologically that the mass-forming lesion included no cancer tissue. MR imaging with fat suppression technique appears to be a promising method for identification of postoperative mass lesions of the breast.