title: Acute lymphoblastic leukemia presented as multiple breast masses.
abstract: Breast metastases in cases leukemia are very rare and occur primarily in patients with acute myeloid leukemia. We report the involvement of breast metastases in a 30-year-old woman with acute T cell lymphoblastic leukemia. The patient's mammograms revealed an extremely dense pattern with ill-defined, denser mass-like lesions in both breasts. A bilateral breast ultrasonographic evaluation revealed lobular-shaped and partly ill-defined hypoechoic masses with a multi-septated nodular (mottled) appearance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Ondokuz Mayis University, School of Medicine, Samsun, Turkey. ilkaykoray@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Ilkay Koray
authors.initials: IK
authors.lastname: Bayrak
authors.forename: Turkay
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yalin
authors.forename: Zafer
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Ozmen
authors.forename: Tolga
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Aksoz
authors.forename: Roula
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Doughanji
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000556:secondary*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography; D054198:Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / Q000473:pathology*; D016217:Ultrasonography, Mammary