Education for breast self-examination, clinical examination, and fine needle aspiration biopsy was carried out in 1915 women, aged 16 to 74 at 3 communes (ThÞnh §¸n, Trung Thµnh, T©n Thanh) in Th¸i Nguyªn City. Results indicated that: breast cancer was detected in 0.1% of cases while other breast diseases were found in 4.7% of cases. Breast self-examination in very helpful in the diagnosis of breast diseases. The researchers recommended that people need to be educated how to self-examine their breast in order to reveal breast cancer and other breast diseases.
Breast Neoplasms ; breast ; breast diseases

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Breast Diseases* ; Breast*

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Breast Diseases* ; Breast*

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Breast Diseases* ; Breast*

Metaplastic breast carcinoma is a very rare disease with many different histologic subtypes including squamous cell, spindle cell, and heterologous mesenchymal growth (sarcomatoid, osseous). We report a case of sarcomatoid metaplastic carcinoma of the breast which was manifested as a well-circumscribed, round, hypoechoic mass on ultrasound.
Breast ; Breast Neoplasms ; Rare Diseases

Stereotactic vacuum assisted breast biopsy has been developed as a minimally invasive alternative procedure to mammogram-guided wire localization then excision breast biopsy for non-palpable breast abnormalities.

OBJECTIVE: The aims of this study was to describe the Medical City experience on stereotactic vacuum assisted breast biopsy from September 2007 to December 2009.

METHODS: Review of patients' records, mammogram results and histopathology reports of all patients who had stereotactic breast biopsy done at the Medical City from September 2007 up to December 2009. Percentages of patients with BI-RADS category 4 on mammogram and of patients with positive histopathology results were calculated. Conclusions were obtained from the tally and the percentage computations. Present rates of stereotactic complications were noted as well.

RESULTS: There were 25 patients who had stereotactic vacuum assisted breast biopsy from September 2007 to December 2009. Of the 25 patients, 15 (60%) had mammogram results with BIRADS category 4. Of the 15 patients with BI-RADS category 4, 5(33.33%) had a histopathology diagnosis positive for malignancy.

CONCLUSION: Stereotactic vacuum assisted breast biopsy is more cost-effective as against mammogram-guided wire localization then excision breast biopsy with the present rates at our institution. Post stereotactic complications experiences by a few patients were very minor.

Many patients present to the breast clinic with variable symptoms. The degree of palpability is the important symptom for patients and clinicians. Both mammography and ultrasonography play an important role in the diagnosis of breast diseases by indicating the cause of the symptoms and aiding in the selection of treatment for the disease. Sometimes, however, we meet unexpected results. In this paper, we will illustrate the ultrasonographic and mammographic findings of interesting, unusual or perplexing breast cases in order to familiarize ourselves with these breasts through these cases and thereby assist in future diagnosis.
Breast Diseases ; Breast* ; Diagnosis ; Humans ; Mammography ; Ultrasonography

Synchrotron radiation (SR) imaging enables us to observe internal structures of biologic samples without staining. In this study, we obtained X-ray microscopic images of human breast tissues with 11.1 KeV hard X-ray microscope of the Pohang light source and used zone plates and phase-contrast technique to get high resolution X-ray images. Hard X-ray microscopic images of fibrocystic change and breast cancer tissues with a spatial resolution of 60 nm were obtained and from these images, we could observe the micro-structures of human breast tissue. Also we analyzed and compared these images, which revealed distinct features of each condition. In conclusion, SR imaging with phase-contrast hard X-ray microscope for medical application, especially in breast disease can give some useful information for clinical research.
Breast ; Breast Diseases ; Breast Neoplasms ; Humans ; Light ; Synchrotrons

PURPOSE: We assessed the usefulness of resistive index(RI) on spectral analysis of Doppler sonography for differential diagnosis of benign and malignant breast lesions. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed 29 benign and 22 malignant lesions of breast, which were examined preoperatively with color and duplex Doppler andwere confirmed by histopathologically after operation. We analyzed the average and distribution of RI in benignand malignant lesions. RESULTS: Although, there was no difference in the average values of RI in benign and malignant breast lesions, the distribution of RI was below 0.7 in eighteen cases (62%) of benign lesions, and above 0.7 in eighteen cases (82%) of malignant lesions. Thus, RI is valuable for differentiation between benignand malignant lesions of breast. CONCLUSIONS: Measurement of RI in breast disease using color and duplex Dopplerstudy is useful modality adjunct to the conventional ultrasonographic differentiation of benign and malignantlesions.
Breast Diseases ; Breast Neoplasms* ; Breast* ; Diagnosis ; Retrospective Studies

Cholesterol granuloma is histologically characterized as fibrous granulation tissue containing cholesterol crystals within surrounding giant cells. Cases of cholesterol granuloma of the breast are rare (1). In fact, only eight cases have been previously described, and of these, an ultrasonography was performed in only . Here, we report the ultrasonographic findings of a breast cholesterol granuloma accompanied with with a literature review.
Breast ; Breast Diseases ; Cholesterol ; Giant Cells ; Granulation Tissue ; Granuloma