MR Findings of Hamartoma of the Breast: A Report of Two Cases.
10.13104/jksmrm.2012.16.3.271
- Author:
Sang Yu NAM
1
;
Boo Kyung HAN
;
Sunjung LEE
;
Kwanghwi LEE
Author Information
1. Department of Radiology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Korea. bkhan@skku.edu
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Breast neoplasms;
Hamartoma;
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
- MeSH:
Breast;
Breast Neoplasms;
Female;
Hamartoma;
Humans
- From:Journal of the Korean Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
2012;16(3):271-275
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Breast hamartoma is a relatively rare pathology, composed of various amount of mammary glandular, fatty and fibrous tissue. Here, we report MR findings of two cases of hamartomas; one of them was incidentally found in her left breast during preoperative MRI in a woman with right breast cancer, and the other was presented as a large palpable mass. Both of them were confirmed by surgical excision. Breast hamartoma shows a well-defined mass with mixed signal intensity on T2-weighted image MRI and a little or focal enhancement on contrast-enhanced MRI.
