So you found the architectural distortion on her screening mammogram. She had a diagnostic workup and you found a small abnormal area, no more than 1 or 2 cm. Ultrasound-guided core…

A sheepish older guy with a breast lump is in your department. Without even seeing him, you know that the most likely diagnosis is gynecomastia. But let’s make sure that…

She’s a little embarrassed. And she’s more than a little nervous. She saw a spot of blood in her bra. Does she have cancer? Her mammogram last month was normal,…

Your children have finally learned to get their own cereal in the morning. But yikes, what is that stuff on the kitchen floor? You start to reach for a paper…

A young woman presented with a palpable lump in her right axilla. She was 3 months pregnant and terrified. Her sister had been diagnosed with stage III breast cancer at…

Always a rush in the morning. Time to fix lunch for the kids. Did we go grocery shopping this week? Those grapes don’t look so hot. I think they’ve been…

Let’s see. A screening recall. Is it a real finding? It looks kind of ugly on the screening views. The mediolateral oblique (MLO) spot looks fine, but the craniocaudal (CC)…

Almost lunchtime. Need to finish the screening board first. Could that little area on the left craniocaudal (CC) be new? I don’t see anything on the mediolateral oblique (MLO). I’ll…

A radiologist friend from another city called one day and asked for a review of his wife’s mammogram. She had been recalled from screening, told that the findings were probably…

Multiple masses. Sigh. Do you hate these? Take a deep breath and lean into it. These masses are really not that hard to assess. They are almost always benign, BI-RADS…