Case Report

A Typical Fat Necrosis of the Breast Mimicking Cancer Following Breast Reduction

10.1501/Tipfak_0000000839

  • Savaș Serel
  • Ebru Düșünceli Atman
  • Sancar Bayar

Received Date: 12.11.2011 Accepted Date: 15.01.2014 J Ankara Univ Fac Med 2013;66(1):45-48

Traumatic fat necrosis can result in a spectrum of imaging appearances that range from characteristically benign to those indistinguishable from malignancy in mammography. In such cases, biopsy might be required for diagnosis. The present case demonstrates a suspicious mammographic mass lesion appearing following a reduction mammoplasty.

Keywords: Fat necrosis, Reduction mammoplasty, Mammography