We present the
case of a 65 year-old woman referred from the breast cancer prevention
programme by the appearance of a suspicious lesion in the mammography.
There were not
personal or familiar antecedents of breast cancer in the clinical history and was
mother of two child. The patient was asymptomatic and the physical examination
revealed a tumor of 4 cm in the upper outer quadrant
of the left breast. She also presented a palpable lymph node in the left
axilla.
The ultrasound
image described a bad defined nodule of 25 × 24 × 20 mm with and adjacent
nodule of 12 × 9 × 11 mm in the upper outer quadrant of left breast, one nodule
of 7 × 7 × 7 mm in the axillary tail, and one of 4 × 3 × 4 mm near the nipple.
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