Invasive carcinoma of the breast accompanied by coarse calcification.
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.
Tanaka
Kenichiro
K
Department of Surgery, Shizuoka Saiseikai General Hospital, 1-1-1 Ojika, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka 422-8527, Japan. k154768@siz.saiseikai.or.jp
Akiyama
Futoshi
F
Nishikawa
Noriko
N
Kimura
Kiyomi
K
Gomi
Naoya
N
Oda
Koji
K
Iwase
Takuji
T
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*