title: Chest wall recurrence of breast cancer detected by scintimammography.
abstract: A case of chest wall recurrence of breast cancer detected by scintimammography is presented. A 63-year-old woman who had a right mastectomy for breast carcinoma 24 years earlier was evaluated for left axillary adenopathy. Although it was suspected that a second primary malignancy had developed in the left breast, results of mammography and magnetic resonance imaging of that breast were negative. Scintimammography performed with Tc-99m sestamibi confirmed a normal left breast but revealed a lesion in the right chest wall at the site of the previous mastectomy. This was surgically confirmed as recurrent breast carcinoma, which subsequently altered patient management.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, USA.
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Kuhn
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Siegel
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Poplack
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Arrick
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D017256:Technetium Tc 99m Sestamibi; D013899:Thoracic Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000556:secondary*; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D017256:Technetium Tc 99m Sestamibi