LINEAR FOCAL HETEROGENOUS NON MASS ENHANCEMENT

momallthetime

My daughter is 30yrs old, she went for her 6 mos mamo due to strong fam History, mamo was unimpressive, she has very dense breasts, and due to History also she had an MRI done.

MRI results: Within the retroareolar left breast extending from the nipple-areolar posteriorly approx 4.0cm, linear enhancement with two associated sites of focal heterogeneous non mass enhancement are noted. The focal enhancement measures 0.5 and 0.3 cm. This represents an interval MRI change.

MRI guided biopsy will be done tomorrow very early.

Could someone explain, are there any indications of it being not benign maybe? The retroareolar seems to be a difficult spot to get to? Would that be a more painful type of biopsy? Thank you for your help

momallthetime

Georgia1 thanks for responding, i had to fix the Topic line, it was not correct.

There is an issue with this type of finding, i would like to know how likely it could be serious.

djmammo

momallthetime

This link may help you interpret some of the MRI terms you've encountered

momallthetime

djmammo thanks - yeah they explain pretty well. It turns out that the MRI was not working today! Rescheduled for Wednesday. But what's your input on the situation?

djmammo

momallthetime

One would have to see the whole report with that finding in context. By themselves, those findings are rather non-specific.

momallthetime

djmammo right i could understand, so she's getting the biopsy. But in the report - there is nothing more that would matter. This is the only paragraph. I could take a pict of the whole thing if you think it matters. The rest is just that they don't see a/t on the other side...