Incidental finding of a mucinous carcinoma of the breast by dynamic MRI in a patient with a history of breast trauma (horse bite): incidental mucinous carcinoma after breast trauma.
Occasional reports on the coincidence of previous trauma of the breast and the development of invasive breast cancer have been published. Furthermore, traumatic changes of the breast tissue can clinically and radiographically mimic malignant breast disease. We report of a 52-year-old female presenting with increasing mammographic microcalcifications after a trauma of the breast due to a horse bite. Dynamic MRI was able to exclude malignancy at the site of the trauma but did detect a clinically and radiographically nonsymptomatic mucinous carcinoma of the breast.
Department of Radiology (E0101), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), INF 280, Heidelberg, Germany. c.fink@dkfz.de
Christian
C
Fink
Heiko
H
Lüdemann
Klaus
K
Wasser
Stefan
S
Delorme
D002288:Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous / Q000175:diagnosis*; D000818:Animals; D001733:Bites and Stings; D001940:Breast / Q000293:injuries*; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006736:Horses; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D008875:Middle Aged