title: MRI appearance of accessory breast tissue: a diagnostic consideration for an axillary mass in a peripubertal or pubertal girl.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this study was to describe the MRI appearance of accessory breast tissue that should be considered a diagnostic possibility in peripubertal or pubertal girls who present with an axillary mass along the course of the primitive milk streak.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The MRI appearance of accessory breast tissue is of a mass discontinuous with-but with signal intensity and contrast enhancement characteristics similar to-normal breast parenchyma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229-3039, USA.
authors.forename: Tal
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Laor
authors.forename: Margaret H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Collins
authors.forename: Kathleen H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Emery
authors.forename: Lane F
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Donnelly
authors.forename: Kevin E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Bove
authors.forename: Edgar T
authors.initials: ET
authors.lastname: Ballard
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001365:Axilla; D001940:Breast; D002648:Child; D002828:Choristoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D012189:Retrospective Studies