Magnetic resonance imaging of primary breast lymphoma

Rizzo, Stefania; Preda, Lorenzo; Villa, Giulia; Brambilla, Sarah; Pruneri, Giancarlo; Alietti, A.; Cassano, Enrico; Martinelli, Giovanni; Bellomi, Massimo

doi:10.1007/s11547-009-0420-8

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“…Our restilts for the BL appearance on the precontrast Ti weighted and T2 weighted images were consistent with the results of Rizzo et al [8] and Surov et al [20].…”

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confidence: 92%

“…In our series, the mean age of the population was 52 years, which was younger than the mean age of 63 years in the study by Rizzo et al [8], and 95% (19/20) of the histological diagnoses were DLBCL, in agreement with past results [2].…”

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confidence: 91%

“…There are some reviews of the features of BL imaging in the literature [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19], but until now, the findings of MRI have, to the best of our knowledge, only been described in case reports [16,18,19] and in two articles with small sample sizes of 7 and 8 BLs [8,20]. Thus, the MRI findings of BL need further study.…”

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The features of breast lymphoma on MRI

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Xie

Peng³

et al. 2013

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“…Our restilts for the BL appearance on the precontrast Ti weighted and T2 weighted images were consistent with the results of Rizzo et al [8] and Surov et al [20].…”

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confidence: 92%

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The features of breast lymphoma on MRI

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Peng³

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“…Only one study analysed seven lesions in PBL [35]. Furthermore, in most reports only qualitative analysis of the enhancement kinetic was done.…”

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Primary and secondary breast lymphoma: prevalence, clinical signs and radiological features

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Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence, clinical signs and radiological features of breast lymphoma. Methods: This is a retrospective review of 36 patients with breast lymphoma (22 primary and 14 secondary). 35 patients were female and 1 was male; their median age was 65 years (range 24-88 years). In all patients, the diagnosis was confirmed histopathologically. Results: The prevalence of breast lymphoma was 1.6% of all identified cases with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and 0.5% of cases with breast cancer. B-cell lymphoma was found in 94% and T-cell lymphoma in 6%. 96 lesions were identified (2.7 per patient). The mean size was 15.8¡8.3 mm. The number of intramammary lesions was higher in secondary than in primary lymphoma. The size of the identified intramammary lesions was larger in primary than in secondary lymphoma. Clinically, 86% of the patients presented with solitary or multiple breast lumps. In 14%, breast involvement was diagnosed incidentally during staging examinations. Conclusion: On mammography, intramammary masses were the most commonly seen (27 patients, 82%). Architectural distortion occurred in three patients (9%). In three patients (9%), no abnormalities were found on mammography. On ultrasound, the identified lesions were homogeneously hypoechoic or heterogeneously mixed hypo-to hyperechoic. On MRI, the morphology of the lesions was variable. After intravenous administration of contrast medium, a marked inhomogeneous contrast enhancement was seen in most cases. On CT, most lesions presented as circumscribed round or oval masses with moderate or high enhancement.

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“…However, the CT component of PET/CT inadequately describes anatomical abnormalities of breast lesions, and thus, hybrid PET/MR has potentially greater diagnostic value because of the superior features of MRI in increased soft tissue contrast and ability to provide functional information. Although MRI has become an integral component of breast imaging practice, few reports have been released on the appearance of PBL by MRI due its rarity [6,7,9]. In a previous report, PBL was found to be hypointense or isointense mass on T1w images and hyperintense on T2w images [7,8].…”

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confidence: 99%