Fat necrosis of breast: a potential pitfall in breast MRI.
Fat necrosis is a benign nonsuppurative inflammatory process of adipose tissue. Occasionally fat necrosis may mimic a breast cancer clinically, mammographically, and sonographically. There have been some previous reports on the MR imaging of the fat necrosis. In some MR findings of fat necrosis, it was difficult to distinguish it from malignant lesions. We report a case of fat necrosis presenting the irregular enhancement with the non-enhancing area of central areas on MRI.
Department of Radiology, Kameda Medical Center, 929 Higashi-cho, Kamogawa, Chiba, Japan. t_kino@kb3.so-net.ne.jp
Takahiro
T
Kinoshita
Naobumi
N
Yashiro
Jun
J
Yoshigi
Nobumaro
N
Ihara
Makoto
M
Narita
D000368:Aged; D001940:Breast / Q000473:pathology*; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D003287:Contrast Media; D005218:Fat Necrosis / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D019786:Gadolinium DTPA; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008327:Mammography; D016217:Ultrasonography, Mammary
D003287:Contrast Media; D019786:Gadolinium DTPA