title: Invasive carcinoma of the breast accompanied by coarse calcification.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We describe the case of a woman with a left breast mass. At mammography, the mass was shown to be irregular and accompanied by coarse calcification. Core needle biopsy revealed invasive carcinoma and a mastectomy was performed. Histopathology showed fibrosis with partial hyalinization eccentrically placed within the tumor with a large area of calcification at the core.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Benign calcifications within a breast mass are not diagnostic of a benign process if the imaging characteristics of the mass are suspicious.
authors: Department of Surgery, Shizuoka Saiseikai General Hospital, 1-1-1 Ojika, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka 422-8527, Japan. k154768@siz.saiseikai.or.jp
authors: Kenichiro
authors: K
authors: Tanaka
authors: Futoshi
authors: F
authors: Akiyama
authors: Noriko
authors: N
authors: Nishikawa
authors: Kiyomi
authors: K
authors: Kimura
authors: Naoya
authors: N
authors: Gomi
authors: Koji
authors: K
authors: Oda
authors: Takuji
authors: T
authors: Iwase
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography / Q000379:methods*