Unusually asymmetric venous engorgement of the breast after long-term hemodialysis.
Venous engorgement of the breast demonstrated on mammography is usually considered a minor sign of malignancy. We report the sonographic and mammographic findings in an unusual case of asymmetric enlargement of the mammary veins in a middle-aged patient as a complication of long-term hemodialysis.
Kim
Min Jung
MJ
Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Research Institute of Radiological Science, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 134, Shinchon-dong, Seodaemun-Ku Seoul 120-752, South Korea.
Kim
Eun-Kyung
EK
Oh
Ki Keun
KK
D001940:Breast / Q000098:blood supply*; D001941:Breast Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography; D008875:Middle Aged; D006435:Renal Dialysis / Q000009:adverse effects; D013350:Subclavian Vein / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D016217:Ultrasonography, Mammary