Korean Journal of Radiology

The Korean Society of Radiology (대한영상의학회)
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Foreign Body Granulomas of the Breast Presenting as Bilateral Spiculated Masses

  • Boo-Kyung Han (Department of Radiology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine) ;
  • Yeon Hyeon Choe (Department of Radiology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine) ;
  • Young-Hyeh Ko (Department of Pathology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine) ;
  • Seok-Jin Nam (Department of General Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine) ;
  • Jung-Hyun Yang (Department of General Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine)
  • Received : 2000.10.06
  • Accepted : 2001.02.09
  • Published : 2001.06.30
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Abstract

In Asia, mammography following the injection of foreign materials into the breasts for cosmetic augmentation is frequently seen and diagnosis based on the typical radiologic findings is straightforward. We report the unusual radiologic findings in two patients with foreign body granulomas caused by injected foreign materials and discovered incidentally during screening work up. The mammographic findings were bilateral, hyperdense, spiculated masses, with occasional microcalcification, and at sonography, markedly hypoechoic, spiculated solid masses, located near the pectoralis muscle and partly extending into it, were observed. These radiologic findings mimicked malignancy.

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