Cavernous hemangioma of the breast: Mammographic and sonographic findings and follow-up in a patient receiving hormone-replacement therapy

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 430-436

  Mesurolle, Benoît ^a,b   Wexler, Marvin ^a   Halwani, Fawaz ^a   Aldis, Ann ^a   Veksler, Anna ^a   Kao, Ellen ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Benign disease; Breast; Cavernous hemangioma; Hormone replacement therapy; Ultrasonography; Ultrasound guided biopsy

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST LESION; CASE REPORT; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; RELIABILITY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; VASCULAR TUMOR;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA, CAVERNOUS; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 0141508006     PISSN: 00912751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcu.10193     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Jozefczyk MA, Rosen PP. Vascular tumors of the breast. II. Perilobular hemangiomas and hemangiomas. Am J Surg Pathol 1985;9:491.
2. Rosen PP. Vascular tumors of the breast. V. Nonparenchymal hemangiomas of mammary subcutaneous tissues. Am J Surg Pathol 1985;9:723.
3. Webb LA, Young JR. Case report: haemangioma of the breast-appearances on mammography and ultrasound. Clin Radiol 1996;51:523.
4. Siewert B, Jacobs T, Baum JK. Sonographic evaluation of subcutaneous hemangioma of the breast. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2002;178:1025.
5. Giovagnorio F, Andreoli C, De Cicco ML. Color Doppler sonography of focal lesions of the skin and subcutaneous tissue. J Ultrasound Med 1999;18:89.
6. Chung SY, Oh KK. Mammographic and sonographic findings of a breast subcutaneous hemangioma. J Ultrasound Med 2002;21:585.
7. Fornage BD, McGavran MH, Duvic M, et al. Imaging of the skin with 20-MHz US. Radiology 1993; 189:69.
8. Carson KF, Hirschowitz SL, Nieberg RK, et al. Pitfalls in the cytologic diagnosis of angiosarcoma of the breast by fine-needle aspiration: a case report. Diagn Cytopathol 1994;11:297.
9. Fornage BD. Sonographically guided needle biopsy of nonpalpable breast lesions. J Clin Ultrasound 1999; 27:385.
10. Rosen PP, Kimmel M, Ernsberger D. Mammary angiosarcoma. The prognostic significance of tumor differentiation. Cancer 1988;62:2145.
11. Stomper PC, D'Souza DJ, DiNitto PA, et al. Analysis of parenchymal density on mammograms in 1353 women 25-79 years old. AJR Am J Roentgenol 1996;167:1261.
12. Dener C, Sengul N, Tez S, et al. Haemangiomas of the breast. Eur J Surg 2000;166:977.
13. Spitzer D, Krainz R, Graf AH, et al. Pregnancy after ovarian stimulation and intrauterine insemination in a woman with cavernous macrohemangioma of the liver. A case report. J Reprod Med 1997;42:809.
14. Di Tommaso L, Scarpellini F, Salvi F, et al. Progesterone receptor expression in orbital cavernous hemangiomas. Virchows Arch 2000;436:284.
15. Martin RA, Howard FM Jr, Salamone CR, et al. Spinal cord vascular malformations with symptoms during menstruation. Report of two cases. J Neurosurg 1977;47:626.