Screening Mammography Could Benefit Men at High Risk of Breast Cancer (IMAGE)

Radiological Society of North America

Screening Mammography Could Benefit Men at High Risk of Breast Cancer

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Images in a 74-year-old man who presented for diagnostic evaluation of palpable right breast mass. (a, b) Mammogram in mediolateral and craniocaudal projections (arrows) illustrates subareolar mass in right breast with associated nipple retraction. (c) US shows correlating centrally located irregular mass (solid arrow) with direct invasion of nipple areolar complex causing retraction (dashed arrows), but no evidence of axillary nodal spread (not shown). Dermal lymphatic tumor extension was confirmed at pathologic analysis.

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