A Typical Fat Necrosis of the Breast Mimicking Cancer Following Breast Reduction
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Case Report
VOLUME: 66 ISSUE: 1
P: 45 - 48
April 2013

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

J Ankara Univ Fac Med 2013;66(1):45-48
1. Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery Department
2. Ankara University Faculty of Medicine Department of Radiology
3. Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgical Oncology
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Received Date: 12.11.2011
Accepted Date: 15.01.2014
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ABSTRACT

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