MRI / Kinetics - plateau/washout...benign?

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Mystic18
Mystic18 Member Posts: 27
edited November 2018 in Not Diagnosed But Worried

Hello,

I'm new here and am kind of freaking out. Last year, I had clustered calcifications and two biopsies later, it ended up being flat epithelial atypia and ADH. During that time last year, they also did an MRI which resulted in 'watch and wait' for a spot on the other side that showed rapid uptake with plateau/washout kinetics. Everything I read online points that to cancer, though I'm aware some things like intramammary lymph nodes can present this way as well. My concern is that back in April for my 6 month follow up, it had enlarged a bit. Next week I go in for the 12 month follow up and am just a nervous wreck. Has anyone else had benign results from a type 2 or 3 kinetic curve?

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  • djmammo
    djmammo Member Posts: 2,939
    edited November 2018

    Kimberlydawn0908

    The kinetics are used in conjunction with all the other features of the finding being evaluated, they are never used alone. There is much overlap in the kinetics of benign and malignant abnormalities as there is overlap in the appearence of same on the images.

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